The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Loves Crappy Variant Covers

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I just read this on www.the-isb.com and thought it was hilarious.

Chris's Invincible Super-Blog said:
With the void left by the end of the Harry Potter franchise finding some people–myself included–looking to shell out a hundred bucks this December for another hit of that sweet JK Rowling goodness and others scrambling for the black tar heroin of the Urban Fantasy genre, there's never been a better market for two-fisted paranormal adventure.

And that's a good thing for me, since the first installment of my first novel cycle, The Chronicles of Solomon Stone: Book One: Enter: Solomon: Stone Me Deadly will be hitting shelves at a bookstore near you soon!

Yes, we've experienced some delays in getting the adventures of the World's Greatest Half-Vampire Half-Wizard Private Detective off the ground, but it looks like the time is right for the book to be available by Halloween. I mean, HBO's got that new vampire thing with Rogue in it or whatever, and that's doing okay, right? So in order to keep up interest, tonight, I'm offering another special excerpt of what I'm sure you'll agree is the greatest work of literature in the English language, featuring all-new illustrations by Dave Campbell and Matthew Allen Smith!!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…



Chapter VII: One Stake… Medium Rare!


"Damn!" swore Solomon Stone mannishly, banging his hand on his desk in frustration. He looked over the papers and documents that were spread over the oak surface in his study at The Cosmodrome, the converted planetarium/skate park he used as both his home and his office. He'd run up against some tricky mysteries before, but this was taxing even the half-vampire senses that fueled his keen mind.

"Bangers an' mash, Solomon! It just don't make sense!" squeaked Minxy Flatbush, her bosom heaving as she leaned over to study the papers with her womanly eyes.

"Shut up, baby. I'm trying to think." His brow furrowed, making him even more handsomer than before, and Minxy tried to control her sexy urges. But he was right. There would be time to bone later… if they survived.

"The murders had to be committed by someone inside Sinistech, but none of their employees–evil though they may be–have the raw savagery and power to pull it off." Solomon stared at the pages, his eyes sharp like an eagle's but also deadly like a shark's, thoughts racing far beyond his mental speed limit. "Unless someone outside their normal workforce could get access… My God!"

Minxy shrank back, her femininity recoiling from his sudden outburst, the loudness of it breaking her from a self-induced trance of totally dirty thoughts. "Blimey! What is it?"

"Temps, baby," said Solomon, grabbing a handful of bullets from the candy dish. "Vampire temps."



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The righteous sound of squealing tires filled the air as Solomon Tokyo Drifted into a parallel parking space.

"Jings!" exclaimed Minxy bustily, her rack rising and falling in perky allure as she caught her breath. "What is this place?"

Solomon got out of the car, patting down his Pockets of Boundless Storage to make sure he was fully equipped to be a total badass in any situation. His eaglish yet sharky eyes raked up the building in front of which he stood, noting its distinct shape as lightning crashed in a dramatic manner overhead.

"This, Minxy… is NosferaTemps."

The building looked like someone had dropped a LEGO Castle set onto the top of a LEGO City set: A skyscraper that ended in crenellated stone walls towering above the streets of New Jack City. It was a place of evil and hopelessness. And yeah: Solomon knew right away that there were a ton of evil vampires all up in that *****.

He stalked almost pantheretically through the double doors, not surprised that they were unlocked as this was a place of business for vampires, who are traditionally regarded as creatures for whom the night functions much like the day for most normal people, except those who have night jobs or insomnia or whatever, with Minxy following jigglingly behind.

The guy at reception moved to stop them, but his actions were as futile as a fish trying to escape a net by flopping around really hard but he can't because he hasn't seen Finding Nemo and doesn't know that only working together can help in a situation like that, and Solomon dispatched him easily with moves that he'd learned during his childhood traveling in the Orient, from monks… or possibly ninjas. Solomon grabbed the keyring from the receptionist/guard's belt and moved quickly to an express elevator with Minxy in bouncy tow.

A few short moments later, the doors hissed apart with a whisper, revealing a lushly appointed office with lavish furniture that was probably very expensive. A ledger was open on the desk, and Solomon moved to it quickly, his piercing eyes flashing over the complex information that was no match for his Half-Vampire Detective mind.

"Blimey, Solomon! It says here that they did have staff on site the day of the Sinistech Murders!"

"I know, baby. We've just cracked this case wide the **** open."

Or had they?! Because just then, a previously hidden panel in the wall slid open, and out stepped this seriously smoking hot lady with dark hair and a rack that was totally *****in'. She wore some kind of crazy bondage outfit with chains or something, and held a whip menacingly.

"Zo you haff fallen unto mein trap," husked the new lady, heels clacking against the carpet.

"Jings!" cried Minxy buxomly as Solomon shoved her out of the line of fire, her skirt flipping up to remind Solomon out of the corner of her eye that this leather-clad whipvixen wasn't the only hot girl in the room.

Solomon gritted his teeth, his flashing eyes piercing in the dark room. "Snooky Lesbiano. My old vampire nemesis. Looks like I picked the wrong day to leave my uzis at home."

"Ze same," said Snooky Lesbiano with a smirk. "Und who is zis crumpet uf a girl you have brought me?"

"Leave her out of this. This fight's between you and me."

Snooky Lesbiano's smirk grew into a bigger smirk, then something more like a smile as she cracked the whip. "Perhaps, Solomon… Or perhaps it is between you… und us."

A bunch of vampires–like ten or twelve–entered the room, each in business casual with bloodstained polo shirts or sensible slacks. It seems this company was offering temporary employment… and permanent death.

"Kill zem!"

A normal man may have been able to clear a holster a fraction of a nanosecond faster than Solomon , but then, Solomon wasn't drawing a normal weapon. His hand dove into his Pockets of Boundless Storage and emerged in a blur wrapped around the grip of his custom Colt M1911, a handgun crafted from the steel of Heaven itself–or was it Hell? But there was another modification: The wand of Solomon's Father, Zechariah Stone, who had vanished under similarly unexplained but I assure you completely unrelated circumstances as Solomon's mother, Diane the Vampire. It was welded to the top of the slide, pumping eighty thousand volts of pure magic into each round of .45 ACP.

"Bang bang, motherf–" said Solomon.

"BANG BANG!" said Solomon's gun.

But the vampires weren't his target. Even the dynamic gunplay and skateboard skills of a half-vampire private eye wouldn't hold long against a room full of vampire temps, and his bullets went straght through the picture window, shattering it. The vampires recoiled vampirically, and Solomon grabbed Minxy's wrist, lugging her to the window and leaping out into the night.

For a moment, as gravity began to pull him down like a cartoon coyote, Solomon wondered if he'd made the right choice, but there wasn't time for regrets now. The ground was rushing up to meet them at 9.8 meters per second squared. That was science. But Solomon Stone wasn't a scientist.

He was a Badass.



TO BE CONTINUED…?
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I going to start Tokyo Drifting into my parking spots.
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

So I got some news today (keeping it private).


I will either have to get a second job or switch to TPBs for everything. It's a good thing I've started looking for a second job already.
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

From an old X-Men thread Tog made:

thee great one said:
Okay first I really don't like Peter Milligan's first arc in X-men. I read it all together for it to make sense but it didn't. It was one of the worst story I've read in a comic. Then I read the 1st issue of the bizarre love triangle and that's even freakin worst. Then I really never liked Uncanny when Clarement took back over. I stopped getting it after the X-23 introduction. I read one of the Mojo issues in my bookstore and it was like WTF? The X-babies and the Jean bomb. I read some of you guys metioning this before but what in the name that's all holy. I liked Austin better. I never minded to couple stories I read of his. And to make it worst Astonshing almost done for awhile. I guess there is still Ultimate X-men.
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E said:
It amazes me to see the drop off in quality among the X-books after Grant Morrison's New X-Men, when all these books were relaunched because of his run.

At least we have Ultimate X-Men.
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Hahahahaa! :lol::lol::lol:


"At least we have Ultimate X-Men."

Oh man. I think I pissed my pants with too much laughter. :lol:
 
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Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

It looks like this weekend in the Baltimore Comic-Con, so maybe we'll see some news coming around.
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

I just bought today "Spike : Shadow puppets" from flicking through it, Puppet Spike vs Puppet Angelus = pure awesome :shock: I can't wait to read it.
 
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WE3 made me cry like a little *****.
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

Sorry if this is old but I saw this on another site :





:D is this the comic based on Super hero squad?
 
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