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Alexx1

01-06-2009, 06:36 PM

OH. SHIT. That's got to hurt.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/06/dcfirsts.htm

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/06/secretsix51.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/06/secretsix52.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/06/secretsix53.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/06/secretsix54.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/06/secretsix55.htm

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-06-2009, 06:46 PM

Gail just demonstrated she is one seriously sick woman TWICE in under two pages.

That's some sort of record.

Gail Simone

01-06-2009, 10:25 PM

I don't think I'm sick.

I think I'm normal.

Gail

Alan Lynch

01-07-2009, 06:20 AM

What the hell is "Faces of Evil"? I'm so far out of the loop with new comics it's not even funny.

K-DoG7p7

01-07-2009, 06:24 AM

What the hell is "Faces of Evil"? I'm so far out of the loop with new comics it's not even funny.

Nothing to take note of..
but you might see a trend if you pick up alot of DC comics this month.

Alan Lynch

01-07-2009, 06:42 AM

Nothing to take note of..
but you might see a trend if you pick up alot of DC comics this month.
I got curious and looked it up. Things like Final Crisis are what's keeping me from missing comics like I should.

K-DoG7p7

01-07-2009, 06:44 AM

I got curious and looked it up. Things like Final Crisis are what's keeping me from missing comics like I should.
Yeah but Faces of evil is not like.. directly tied to Final Crisis..
the Post Final Crisis DCU wont come about untill March or something

LewisH

01-07-2009, 07:48 AM

Junior's constant "They die or you die" query is "We all die" followed by the detonation of some well secreted C4 , imo. Or if you're Kyzer Soze you go with,
they die, then your friends and family die then you die, I suppose.

Eliseu Gouveia

01-07-2009, 08:18 AM

"Is it safe?" has a successor! ^_^

scout1279

01-07-2009, 08:26 AM

Secret Six #5 comes out today?! Awesome. It's a good thing I'm going to be able to make it to the comic shop for the first time in weeks.

Gail Simone

01-07-2009, 08:29 AM

Secret Six #5 comes out today?! Awesome. It's a good thing I'm going to be able to make it to the comic shop for the first time in weeks.

I would be SO MAD if you didn't!

:)

Bat-Reader

01-07-2009, 09:59 AM

Looks great. :)

taking the triditional stoning people to next level hmm... i like that.

Bricking people. Progress of humanity goes on. :P

4thHorseman

01-07-2009, 11:05 AM

I love Junior. He's pure awesomeness. Definately my new favorite character...

That is, if he IS new

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN

Tad Sivana

01-07-2009, 11:27 AM

I don't think I'm sick.

I think I'm normal.

Marquis de Sade

Stressfactor

01-07-2009, 12:27 PM

Gail is normal.... it's her imagination that's sick...... and many of us hope it doesn't get well.:biggrin:

4thHorseman

01-07-2009, 12:32 PM

Just flipped through it (since I can't read it until after work), and I have to say that the last page is all sorts of disturbing. Good job on Mrs. Scott's work.

General Grievous

01-07-2009, 12:33 PM

I would love to write that brick scene.

I have not read it yet but here is what i'd do.

I have tell the artist to do 10 panels all with the caption 1 hour later on them, showing junior still throwing the bricks and the bricks rapidly decreasing from the pile.

i would instruct the artist to really show the reader how much damage and pain bane is going through.

10 hours of getting hundreds of bricks tossed at you. The question is, does junior have the patience and supply?

:biggrin:

Gail Simone

01-07-2009, 12:46 PM

General Grievous

01-07-2009, 01:10 PM

Bane is pretty damage resistent , i wonder how long he will lasted.

I will know 2moro at lunch when i read it.

Calvin Government

01-07-2009, 02:48 PM

Great, great issue. Simone & Scott continue to deliver the twisted thrills and some of the funniest stuff in comics today. Awesome saucum. As the children say.

The children do say that, right?

Nicola Scott

01-07-2009, 02:58 PM

Gail Simone

01-07-2009, 03:00 PM

Corrina

01-07-2009, 03:02 PM

I knew it!

Women r evil. You give them a comic and THIS is what happens.

Yue

01-07-2009, 03:10 PM

So I read it and I'm a bit confused about the last page.

(Highlight below to read because I'm not exactly sure how to use spoiler tags)
Am I reading it wrong, or is Junior Ragdoll's sister?

Calvin Government

01-07-2009, 03:16 PM

So I read it and I'm a bit confused about the last page.

(Highlight below to read because I'm not exactly sure how to use spoiler tags)
Am I reading it wrong, or is Junior Ragdoll's sister?

It is my humble opinion that ye be correct!

Linkara

01-07-2009, 03:21 PM

I knew it!

Women r evil. You give them a comic and THIS is what happens.

It's their damn wombs! Clearly, since the womb is directly connected to the brain, it makes them either psychotic or full of rainbows!

I don't know why I love this book so much, but I do. :biggrin:

Christopher Cross Is God

01-07-2009, 05:32 PM

To be honest, I thought this was the weakest issue so far since the ongoing series started.

Maybe it's just the sequencing from the end of last issue to the beginning of this issue that chapped my hide, I cannot say. You know, the SS getting poisoned, a legion of villains at their necks, and suddenly we're given a bit of a verbal dismissal by Scandal's Victorian-styled friend.

Otherwise, I liked Bane's torture scene (Got a bit more characterization on Bane with that part of the issue), and Ragdoll was fairly amusing with his comments. So, overall, issue #5 was alright, but in my opinion the weakest of the 5 issues in this series.

Just flipped through it (since I can't read it until after work), and I have to say that the last page is all sorts of disturbing. Good job on Mrs. Scott's work.

Kind of reminded me of some granny porn pics I've seen, but I'll leave it at that.

The last page of SS #5 was OK for comics consumption, though, as I didn't notice any nipples.......Were they hidden from view? Or do she and Ragdoll have similar habits and she got them removed?

cedardryad

01-07-2009, 06:36 PM

Marquis de Sade

Exactly.:biggrin:

ElvisGuy

01-07-2009, 06:37 PM

Dear Gail and Nicola,
Due to the future trauma and loss of sleep due to night terrors I will experience because of the last page of Secret Six #5, I will be sending you my therapy bills.

Michael P

01-07-2009, 06:39 PM

For the record, the total number of bricks smashed against Bane was 27.

scout1279

01-07-2009, 06:52 PM

HA! I totally saw that last page reveal coming. I am awesome.

Also, that was just sick. I think it was the breasts that disturbed me the most.

jerrymcl89

01-07-2009, 09:13 PM

It's a small thing, but I found Deadshot's "Was I narrating out loud?" pretty damn funny.

Bat-Reader

01-08-2009, 01:53 AM

For the record, the total number of bricks smashed against Bane was 27.

Just 27 ? hah, he can take it.

mimic_616

01-08-2009, 02:21 AM

Secret Six #5 is already out? I thought it was out next week!

"To Ebay, my good man!"

Cam63

01-08-2009, 02:23 AM

I don't think I'm sick.

I think I'm normal.

Gail

You keep thinking that... Gives me hope for me !

Chris Hansbrough

01-08-2009, 06:41 AM

Oh Gail and Nicola....I am reveling in your madness. So much wicked evil fun...that last page.....I want to dig my eyes out....So ewwy

Stressfactor

01-08-2009, 08:10 AM

BTW -- whoever previously said they thought Jeannette was a vampire... I'm starting to think she is also -- or at least something similar... some kind of undead. When Cheshire threats to kill her Jeannette says "That ship has already sailed"... which would seem to imply she's dead already.

And Jeannette is awesome! "I don't care about your brat! I care about your manners!" :biggrin:

spark627

01-08-2009, 08:18 AM

Why, you make it sound like a chore!

Not for Junior, it isn't!

Gail, that brick throwing scene was awesome.

I can not get over how much I love this book. It is beyond screwed up and wrong... and yet I can't help loving every character (and almost having sympathy for them)!

PS. When will we learn more about Jeanette? What are her powers, where (and when) is she from? etc

Alexx1

01-08-2009, 08:39 AM

IGN Review:

http://comics.ign.com/articles/942/942731p1.html

And as great as Simone has been in this series and is in this issue, Nicola Scott is proving to be just as talented. The Simone/Scott dynamic that blossomed in the pages of Birds of Prey has now developed into one of the strongest creative relationships in comics. I can honestly say I can't think of many artists who could have delivered this issue's material as effectively as Scott did, which is a testament to both her talent and her fantastic dynamic with Simone. Credit is likewise deserved for Scott's longtime collaborator Doug Hazelwood, whose inking chores bring vibrant life to the book's visuals.

Such a wonderful and true compliment!

With Action Comics languishing in the mediocrity of "New Krypton," Morrison's Batman run finished and new Green Lantern issues coming few and far between, Secret Six is now the DC book I look forward to the most. Dare I say it, but it very well might be the best DC book on the stands

Might as well be honest.

Astonishing X-Fan

01-08-2009, 09:09 AM

Unlike a lot of people here I enjoy the majority of what DC puts out, and I STILL would agree that this is the best or at least one of the best coming out of the company. I think this might be the best Gail book I've ever read. I'm loving it.

The Beast Of Yucca Flats

01-08-2009, 09:09 AM

I want a flying prostitute. :frown:

LewisH

01-08-2009, 09:33 AM

The Ragdoll is an American cat breed with a medium-length, silky, rabbit-like coat. It is best known for its docile and placid temperament and affectionate nature.

So definitely no relationship to any of the Merkel family.

By the way, if Gail's normal than so is Daniel Way:

http://comicbookresources.com/assets/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/assets/images/preview/1833/prv1833_pg4.jpg&w=150

Lester C.

01-08-2009, 12:39 PM

I'm going to go ahead and spoil/ruin it for everybody.. Junior is Savant as Brian was named after his dad and we all know that man has issues with his father.:evilsmile:

Lester C.

01-08-2009, 12:41 PM

And don't let the fact that I'm waiting for the trade and haven't read an issue discredit my Junior reveal. After all if you read it on the internet it has to be true. Right.:confused:

General Grievous

01-08-2009, 12:51 PM

Great issue, I can't get enough of this stufff in 22 pages, i need an annual now!

junior is so freaking heinous!

Gail Simone

01-08-2009, 12:52 PM

I want a flying prostitute. :frown:

Who doesn't?

General Grievous

01-08-2009, 12:58 PM

question for gail.

did junior pull the trigger in tig's mouth?

are those sycophantic twins going to be black lanterns now! I kinda liked them around:)

they could have lasted 10 issues at least:eek:

4thHorseman

01-08-2009, 02:08 PM

I want a flying prostitute. :frown:

This may have been my favorite line in the entire book. Followed closely by

"I choose I die. I believe your count is on 507" or something along those lines.

Just. Awesome.

General Grievous

01-08-2009, 02:15 PM

Bane needs to inject some venom and start dishing out hurt like a bat back breaker out of hell!

scout1279

01-08-2009, 02:34 PM

Who doesn't?

Aviophobic johns.

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-08-2009, 04:14 PM

I don't think I'm sick.

I think I'm normal.

Gail

So did Leatherface.

Still, I can understand where the idea for the brick-throwing came from. After all, as a hairdresser, Gail was part of the service industry...

DarkCrisis

01-08-2009, 04:18 PM

Highlight:

Now we are assuming there always was a sister....

or could his bro now be a sis?

Arrogantcur

01-08-2009, 04:46 PM

Okay, tell me if I'm right about this. Is Shark trying to say "Aw no, dammit! You broke my face, bitch!" Or is that a mistranslation?

I would be SO MAD if you didn't!

:)

Well, I went and bought it. :biggrin:

(Can I get a pat on the head or somethin'?)

Bricking people. Progress of humanity goes on. :P

I don't know whether I should feel proud that I was able to do the brick math in my head or whether it's actually pathetic that my head-math skills have atrophied to the point where it took me a minute or two.

Just flipped through it (since I can't read it until after work), and I have to say that the last page is all sorts of disturbing. Good job on Mrs. Scott's work.

Ditto on the last page. I mean when I read about Ragdoll's modifications to his own body the description alone was disturbing without pictures. But motherFUCK! What the hell did Junior do to herself? Is her forehead and part of her brain MISSING?

We need a :puke: smilie for pages like this. We really do.

Why, you make it sound like a chore!

Not for Junior, it isn't!

Her arm never got tired?

I don't know why anyone would blame ME.

I write these lovely little frolicsome scripts, full of fairies and rainbows, and when I get them back from Nicola, they are all HORRID AND AWFUL.

So blame Nicola.

:)

Can you sic Maxine on her or something?

So I read it and I'm a bit confused about the last page.

(Highlight below to read because I'm not exactly sure how to use spoiler tags)
Am I reading it wrong, or is Junior Ragdoll's sister?

Unless Ragdoll is totally delusional, or lying to his teammates, or mistaken, then Junior is.

HA! I totally saw that last page reveal coming. I am awesome.

Also, that was just sick. I think it was the breasts that disturbed me the most.

I had to think about it for a moment before turning the page. "Relative of Ragdoll...share the same father...NOT his brother...AHA! Sister! Wait, SISTER?!"

Tobias March

01-08-2009, 08:38 PM

Fantastic. For some reason I was reminded a lot of some of the more horrifying issues of Preacher - which is a compliment. I remember the line in the YABs column taking the piss out of that book, but still I think it was the mix of black humour and body horror in this book that reminded me.

Getting a real Butch Cassidy and Sundance vibe....

Sanlear

01-09-2009, 05:39 AM

I just read a truely funny response to this issue.

From the Newsarama forum

"Having just read the issue, I can honestly say that's not the most rattling thing Gail's come up with in these pages. She clearly has issues, and I think an intervention may be in order. After she finishes her run on this series, of course, because I will gladly enjoy the fruits of her disturbed condition.

And, Gail, if you need quotes for the trade, feel free to use this one for the front of the dust jacket: "Secret Six: Man, that's just f*#@ed up right there."
" Another review that I liked, here on CBR:

Secret Six #5 (DC Comics)

There are five hundred and eight bricks in question. That's serious business. The brothers Aaron and Tig are back, and they're downright cheery. Junior's back, and he's quite determined. The team's falling in on each other and Cheshire has a bad day. With funny dialogue ("it's not dainty!"), solid action and the last couple of pages ... well, if they don't disturb you, there's something deeply not right inside your dome piece, home piece. This series just keeps on doing the job, and it's a sure winner between Gail Simone's alarming script and the intimate, detailed artwork of Nicola Scott, Doug Hazelwood, Rodney Ramos and Jason Wright

LewisH

01-09-2009, 09:24 AM

was that French kiss Ragdoll mentioned (back in the first issue) before, after, or somewhere in the middle of whatever turned Junior into the ghoul like creature on
that last page?

titanfan

01-09-2009, 09:36 AM

BTW -- whoever previously said they thought Jeannette was a vampire... I'm starting to think she is also -- or at least something similar... some kind of undead. When Cheshire threats to kill her Jeannette says "That ship has already sailed"... which would seem to imply she's dead already.

Is it possible that Jeanette really is Marie Antoinette herself? I mean she does look like her...

Sanlear

01-09-2009, 11:25 AM

Arrogantcur

01-09-2009, 11:27 AM

Is it possible that Jeanette really is Marie Antoinette herself? I mean she does look like her...

If so, her head is surprisingly well-connected to rest of her body.

Guess we'll know sooner or later!

TCJohnson

01-09-2009, 11:29 AM

If so, her head is surprisingly well-connected to rest of her body.

Guess we'll know sooner or later!

It's amazing what they can do with makeup these days.

TCJohnson

01-09-2009, 11:32 AM

A thought just occured to me...her job is to torture rich people...it would seem to me that she would have been on the other side of the french revolution.

Arrogantcur

01-09-2009, 11:32 AM

A thought just occured to me...her job is to torture rich people...it would seem to me that she would have been on the other side of the french revolution.

Since I missed the first four issues, what's her job? Dominatrix or something?

EDIT: It wouldn't surprise me, but I just thought if you owned a casino then you wouldn't need a second job. Unless you did it for the sheer love of the craft, of course.

TCJohnson

01-09-2009, 11:56 AM

Since I missed the first four issues, what's her job? Dominatrix or something?

EDIT: It wouldn't surprise me, but I just thought if you owned a casino then you wouldn't need a second job. Unless you did it for the sheer love of the craft, of course.

Casino owner and dominatrix for the extremely rich and powerful. In her first appearance she had a senator dressed in leather and hanging upside down.

Gail Simone

01-09-2009, 12:05 PM

Since I missed the first four issues, what's her job? Dominatrix or something?

EDIT: It wouldn't surprise me, but I just thought if you owned a casino then you wouldn't need a second job. Unless you did it for the sheer love of the craft, of course.

You ....

You missed...

Wait.

You MISSED the FIRST FOUR ISSUES?

SHAME!

Lester C.

01-09-2009, 12:26 PM

The trade isn't out yet, with the series not being done and all, but I have to admit as a "Junior" myself I have a very hard time taking the name seriously to be a villian. And yet he sounds like a real bad ass. I'm going to buy the trade just to see how Gail and Nicola pulled that one off.

Arrogantcur

01-09-2009, 12:30 PM

You ....

You missed...

Wait.

You MISSED the FIRST FOUR ISSUES?

SHAME!

(sheepishly) I'm sorry....

*hangs head*

(I did dig through the back issues hoping to get caught up all at once, but was only able to find parts 1 & 3 of the limited series. Nothing more current.)

Tobias March

01-09-2009, 06:34 PM

The only shame is we didn't get a Nicola cover. That Faces of Evil stuff rankles.

Michael P

01-09-2009, 06:37 PM

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-09-2009, 07:26 PM

Went to the comics shop to pick up a copy and they were sold out.

I still have a couple other shops I can try so it's not hopeless. But I kinda hope that's good news for Gail...

Tobias March

01-09-2009, 07:32 PM

Went to the comics shop to pick up a copy and they were sold out.

I still have a couple other shops I can try so it's not hopeless. But I kinda hope that's good news for Gail...

It's selling well in Kings on Pitt Street.

40footwolf

01-09-2009, 07:53 PM

The only shame is we didn't get a Nicola cover. That Faces of Evil stuff rankles.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who noticed that. What a lame cover. He looks kind of like Deathlok on it.

mgs

01-09-2009, 08:59 PM

I did dig through the back issues hoping to get caught up all at once, but was only able to find parts 1 & 3 of the limited series. Nothing more current.)
are you yet another poster on these boards who doesn't buy comics? :eek:

Great issue Gail, though I think Bane could'a been a bit more damaged, I appreciated the sick effort! :wink:

And ha!! None of you who guessed the mystery person was, was correct! :tongue:

Santanico

01-09-2009, 09:37 PM

If so, her head is surprisingly well-connected to rest of her body.

Well, she does wear a choker. Remember that old folk tale about the girl with the yellow ribbon (http://cleoland.pbwiki.com/The-Yellow-Ribbon)...?

Anyway, anecdote ahoy: so I'd just bought this issue yesterday, brought it home, and was kicking back to read it outside, with the radio on in the background. At the exact moment when I get to the bit on page five where Junior starts throwing the bricks, what should come on the radio but - I swear to God this is true - "Hit Me With Your Best Shot".

I think I may have laughed so hard I ruptured something.

stealthwise

01-09-2009, 10:36 PM

I'm glad I'm not the only person who noticed that. What a lame cover. He looks kind of like Deathlok on it.

I'm more choked that it's not Bane on the cover; this issue was truly his, and it rattled my bones to read those pages.

This is, bar none, the best comic on the stands right now. The pacing, dialogue, action sequences, facial expressions and body language, are all top-notch. The violence is gripping and engaging, while still having consequences (and not being tossed in purely for shock value). For a book that's filled with villains, you have the characters behaving in far more justifiable and noble ways than most of the so-called "superhero" books being put out by any company.

Awesome, A+, numero uno stuff. I don't gush just to gush, anyone who's read my other incoherent rantings on Gail's stuff knows I'm not a sycophant, but Secret Six is easily my favourite book since Agent X, and it rocks even harder than that title did. I'd go so far as to say that it is at least on par with the original Suicide Squad, if not better.

Arrogantcur

01-10-2009, 01:22 AM

are you yet another poster on these boards who doesn't buy comics? :eek:

Oh not at all, although this is the first time I've ever bought two or more titles written by Gail simultaneously.

I started buying comics in 1989 or so beginning with What If...? Before the internet was available (let alone Wiki), What If...? was a great way for people who were new to comics to learn about previous events in the Marvel universe like Spidey's symbiote, "Born Again," the trial of Reed Richards for saving Galactus' life, etc.

From there I got into X-Men, Spidey, Hulk, Captain America, X-Factor, New Mutants, and lots of others. After a couple of years I stopped buying comics.

A few years later I began reading again (just in time for the Clone Saga so...yay?). Still only Marvel stuff though. Then I stopped again.

I began reading again from '99 until 2002, which was when I began reading Thunderbolts and Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. Gaining respect for the writing prowess of both Busiek and Morrison and learning years later that they'd moved to DC got me thinking about checking out Marvel's competition, though I never did at that time. I read Claremont's run on Fantastic Four which I thought was good and certainly better than the stories he wrote when he was moved back to the X-books. But most relevant to this discussion: I discovered Deadpool, which led to me reading my first Gail Simone story! :biggrin:

I stopped again until one day Joe Quesada popped up on The Colbert Report to promote Civil War. And despite both my dislike for Quesada's meddling with Spider-Man and disappointment with Civil War itself, it got me back into comics.

I read everything written by Peter David until his recent post on his website where he basically says "Hamas started this, so Israel is totally right to annihilate all of Gaza, and if civilians die then that's just too fucking bad." At which point I thought "fuck you, PAD" after trying to reason with him and failing, and I stopped buying X-Factor and She-Hulk. But aside from that I also bought World War Hulk, Civil War: Frontline (much to my eventual regret), Amazing Spider-Man until the end of OMD, Captain America until he got shot, Iron Man for a few issues, and others. One of those others was Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, which I'll admit because I guess I'm secure in my masculinity or something.

I also discovered Runaways by lucky accident. If anybody knows Ann Nichols, I used to read some of her issue recaps and in one of them she mentioned that Runaways was one of her favourite books and told people they should read it. So when I came across digests of BKV's run for $7.99 U.S. and $12.75 Cdn. (six issues in each one), I grabbed 'em and I'm really glad I did. Eventually read Whedon's run (good) and am currently reading Moore's run (not as good, IMO, so I hope he steps it up).

Discovering how goddamn brilliant a writer Vaughan is made me pick up Y, which lived up to my expectations even though the ending isn't as happy as you'd hope and sometimes non-villainous characters did things that made me really angry at them (and I won't elaborate because I don't want to spoil it).

MightyGodKing's "I Should Write The Legion" campaign, coupled with watching the Legion of Super Heroes cartoon on the CW, got me interested in that book and I began buying it at the tail end of Bedard's run, which was the first time I ever bought anything published by DC (I know Vertigo's part of the DC family, but I'm pretty sure that I began buying LoSH before Y: The Last Man). I read several issues into Shooter's run without really being blown away or anything, then stopped after I read it was going to be cancelled.

Meanwhile, I was posting in different forums on CBR and found my way here because I saw there was politics being talked about and I wanted to talk about politics as well. After loitering around YABS for some time, I felt like I should maybe start buying Wonder Woman, so I did since I had faith in Gail and since I also had some financial wiggle room to squeeze in another book after dropping the Legion.

After reading WW I thought "you know, as good as she did on Deadpool back in the day, she seems to be even better now!" Thus did I pick up my first issue of Secret Six in order to get more Gail per month, and that brings us to the present! Phew! :smile:

Hybrid2

01-10-2009, 11:28 AM

I don't know why anyone would blame ME.

I write these lovely little frolicsome scripts, full of fairies and rainbows, and when I get them back from Nicola, they are all HORRID AND AWFUL.

So blame Nicola.

:)

Dear Gail and Nicola,
Due to the future trauma and loss of sleep due to night terrors I will experience because of the last page of Secret Six #5, I will be sending you my therapy bills.

My reaction after tourning the last page,knowing it was goina be horrible?
I barely had time to read what ragdoll said before closing the book.
I touck me a few minutes to look at it again.

I have never seen ANYTHING so horrifying.or reacted so strongly to a book.

Nicola`s just got a way of drawing the eyes,that make it look alive.

Oh..and I gess Gail hellped make the comic good to.

Ian Boothby

01-10-2009, 01:19 PM

That was a great issue.

Nicola Scott

01-10-2009, 03:11 PM

And here i was, worried she wasn't going to be gruesome enough or that people would think she was lame!

Yay!

Keep a light on when you go to sleep tonight. 'CAUSE SHE'S GONNA GET YA!!

Gail Simone

01-10-2009, 03:13 PM

It might have been a tip-off when I SCREAMED when Nicola first showed me the page. :)

Cam63

01-10-2009, 03:13 PM

Keep a light on when you go to sleep tonight. 'CAUSE SHE'S GONNA GET YA!!

I'll put on the Barry White album.

Gail Simone

01-10-2009, 03:14 PM

That was a great issue.

Glad you liked it, Ian...did you see the "I'm Back!" thread? We had an AWESOME time in Vancouver!

Gail Simone

01-10-2009, 03:18 PM

My reaction after tourning the last page,knowing it was goina be horrible?
I barely had time to read what ragdoll said before closing the book.
I touck me a few minutes to look at it again.

I have never seen ANYTHING so horrifying.or reacted so strongly to a book.

Nicola`s just got a way of drawing the eyes,that make it look alive.

Oh..and I gess Gail hellped make the comic good to.

It's the eyes that get me. Nicola drew it like Junior was looking RIGHT AT YOU and that makes it twice as awful, for me.

Nicola is a sick, sick woman.

Cam63

01-10-2009, 03:19 PM

Antibiotics have no effect on her.

Cam63

01-10-2009, 03:27 PM

Tobias March

01-10-2009, 04:25 PM

I'll put on the Barry White album.

Ewww......

mgs

01-10-2009, 06:43 PM

Phew! :smile:
Phew is right! :eek:

Thanks for that. :wink:

stealthwise

01-10-2009, 07:15 PM

The only thing that sucks about all of this is that I'm trying to get my friends into this series, and they all get trades only. So they won't be able to know what I'm talking about until AUGUST (according to chapters.ca).

Michael P

01-10-2009, 07:17 PM

stealthwise

01-10-2009, 07:22 PM

Loan them your copies of this arc once it's over. I've already loaned out 1-3 to someone.

All three people I'm thinking of live across the country, and I don't want to be mailing out these issues and being without them for months.

Arrogantcur

01-10-2009, 08:10 PM

It's the eyes that get me. Nicola drew it like Junior was looking RIGHT AT YOU and that makes it twice as awful, for me.

Nicola is a sick, sick woman.

Is Junior in the process of peeling away more skin with the scissors in that last panel? Ick.

shrike

01-10-2009, 08:13 PM

I find it odd that one of DC's 'lighest' and best books is actually also one of its darkest. Go fig.

As a side note, reminder to self to pick this up Wed.

Nicola Scott

01-11-2009, 02:05 PM

Hey, Nicola... If they ever find the bodies, you can't count on the Oregonian to back you up in court.

Oh, don't worry Cam. THEY'RE NEVER GONNA FIND THE BODIES.

:)

General Grievous

01-11-2009, 02:12 PM

maybe junior was cutting off her penis with that scissors?

doom saber

01-11-2009, 03:33 PM

Iss it just me or did anyone else thought that the two twins was going to rape Bane while chained up? Maybe, the scene in Pulp Fiction and porn screwed up my brain whereas everytime I see someone chained up and ppl taking off their clothes, I think of "chica chica wow-wow."

General Grievous

01-11-2009, 03:40 PM

No, i knew they were going to show bane something that means something special to them, for a second i though they were going to show off their balls.

but the scars were a nice touch.

I hope tig lives, or is it aaron?

Cam63

01-12-2009, 06:57 AM

Oh, don't worry Cam. THEY'RE NEVER GONNA FIND THE BODIES.

:)

Don't tell me you've gone cannibal again ?

Arrogantcur

01-12-2009, 09:33 AM

Don't tell me you've gone cannibal again ?

I was gonna guess she'd pulled a Sweeney Todd.

Or maybe it's a combination of the two...

http://www.gangsterbb.net/emoticons/barf.gif

escapegoat

01-12-2009, 01:48 PM

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-12-2009, 03:48 PM

Lemme guess: Between Jeanette and Junior, Gail's trying to widen the territory for female costume contest entrants...

As for Ragdoll and his sister, the brother... I think I used to go to school with this family...

(Did anyone else notice the eyes were sewn open? and so was the mouth?)

Gail Simone

01-12-2009, 05:34 PM

EVERYTHING IS NICOLA'S FAULT!

My story was mainly about friends having tea and saying nice things to each other!

Cam63

01-12-2009, 06:32 PM

I've seen you drink tea while saying nice things.

...No violence, but you could cut the air with a knife.

Chris Hansbrough

01-12-2009, 07:43 PM

I've seen you drink tea while saying nice things.

...No violence, but you could cut the air with a knife.

actualy she prefers scissors and maybe sometimes a razor blade. it's kind of scary. I don't think my bangs will ever recover

Arrogantcur

01-12-2009, 10:29 PM

(Did anyone else notice the eyes were sewn open? and so was the mouth?)

The eyes, I noticed, but not the mouth. :eek:

EVERYTHING IS NICOLA'S FAULT!

My story was mainly about friends having tea and saying nice things to each other!

Tea, piece of Aaron's neck, same thing.

(Aaron's blood was, in fact, 90% chamomile. What, you think the only birth abnormality he had was being conjoined? Nosiree!)

Cam63

01-13-2009, 04:19 AM

actualy she prefers scissors and maybe sometimes a razor blade. it's kind of scary. I don't think my bangs will ever recover

It was weird every time she had a sip, ominous music would start up and her eyes would dart to the side and glow red.

...I know it was a coincidence the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were rehearsing next door, but that doesn't explain the weird eye thing.

Santanico

01-13-2009, 07:55 AM

(Did anyone else notice the eyes were sewn open? and so was the mouth?)

Not just that, but she's also got a bunch of red cloth triangles sewn over her nose and eyes (to represent eyebrows), and a couple of red circles over her cheeks. God help me, I think what she's tried to do is - and I can't believe I'm actually about to type this - turn herself into a living Raggedy Ann doll.

...What the hell did Ragdoll Sr. do to these kids of his?!

Gail Simone

01-13-2009, 08:07 AM

Bingo, Santanico. You are the first person to mention that, by the way!

Santanico

01-13-2009, 08:29 AM

Oh, I'm sure it's just that everyone else was momentarily distracted by that page being a gestalt of mind-bending horror, that's all.

Tad Sivana

01-13-2009, 11:39 AM

I don't know why anyone would blame ME.

I write these lovely little frolicsome scripts, full of fairies and rainbows, and when I get them back from Nicola, they are all HORRID AND AWFUL.

So blame Nicola.

:)

Can't help noting that, while I'm not sure who the fairies were in this ish, the chick in the rainbow outfit had several magnum-sized holes blown in her by Deadshot.
Gail is starting to worry me with her torture theme in this book.
First the Crime Doctor's attentions to our cast, now Bane's bricking and her 'button' advertisement for elective surgery in Ragdoll's sib.

Arrogantcur

01-13-2009, 03:42 PM

Not just that, but she's also got a bunch of red cloth triangles sewn over her nose and eyes (to represent eyebrows), and a couple of red circles over her cheeks. God help me, I think what she's tried to do is - and I can't believe I'm actually about to type this - turn herself into a living Raggedy Ann doll.

...What the hell did Ragdoll Sr. do to these kids of his?!

Oh FUCK...just thinking about that I really feel like it wants to come up now, I kid you not...incoming visual aid...

http://www.gangsterbb.net/emoticons/barf.gif

The team has gotta put the girl out of her (and everybody else's) misery.

TCJohnson

01-13-2009, 03:49 PM

In a previous issue of Villains United, Ragdoll said only his older brother inherited his father's abilities...

Could it be that his sister used to be his brother?

General Grievous

01-13-2009, 03:51 PM

In a previous issue of Villains United, Ragdoll said only his older brother inherited his father's abilities...

Could it be that his sister used to be his brother?

That's interesting, I must re-read that issue.

K-DoG7p7

01-13-2009, 04:15 PM

That's interesting, I must re-read that issue.

or his sister did NOT and became as addicted to surgery as Ragdoll.. only... didnt go so good :P

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-13-2009, 04:37 PM

But you know what s/he really needs? Heels...

BnL

01-13-2009, 05:04 PM

In a previous issue of Villains United, Ragdoll said only his older brother inherited his father's abilities...

Could it be that his sister used to be his brother?

I hope not. I've seen quite enough "killer trannies" in the media.

Arrogantcur

01-13-2009, 05:51 PM

What I'm curious about is just what the hell happened to those teeth. 'Cause they look nothing like Raggedy Ann's teeth (or so I assume, since I can't recall any pictures of her with her teeth showing).

Jared_Humpherys

01-13-2009, 06:32 PM

God, I love this comic.

Tobias March

01-13-2009, 06:34 PM

God, I love this comic.

Yup :biggrin:

WhiteRose

01-15-2009, 04:28 PM

In a previous issue of Villains United, Ragdoll said only his older brother inherited his father's abilities...

Could it be that his sister used to be his brother?

Didn't Ragdoll say he took his sister to some dance back in one of the BoP issues?

Or am I remembering incorrectly?

Meanwhile, I just got my comics yesterday and read Secret Six this morning, and HOLYCHRISTICAN'TUNSEETHELASTPAGE.

*clappity clappity* Kudos Nicola for making me vaguely uncomfortable with the comics medium. Woo!

General Grievous

01-15-2009, 04:30 PM

Ragdoll in BOP?

That's news to me. when?

Gail Simone

01-15-2009, 04:42 PM

Didn't Ragdoll say he took his sister to some dance back in one of the BoP issues?

Or am I remembering incorrectly?

Meanwhile, I just got my comics yesterday and read Secret Six this morning, and HOLYCHRISTICAN'TUNSEETHELASTPAGE.

*clappity clappity* Kudos Nicola for making me vaguely uncomfortable with the comics medium. Woo!

Nicola is sick. My script had a lovely teddy bear picnic, tea and scones. SHE made it about some crazy nightmare.

I think Ragdoll mentioned his prom date in issue three of the current series, and in the previous mini, he said he'd french kissed his sister.

He's not a well lad.

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-15-2009, 04:45 PM

Actually, it was an earlier issue of this title when Rag Doll said that.

Also, we've already seen Rag Doll's big brother and he didn't look like that at all, I think.

WhiteRose

01-15-2009, 05:08 PM

Hah! I knew he mentioned a sister somewhere along the way.

But man, droopy boobs are droopy. You ladies are a couple of sick chicks, I love it.

Arrogantcur

01-15-2009, 05:13 PM

Hah! I knew he mentioned a sister somewhere along the way.

But man, droopy boobs are droopy. You ladies are a couple of sick chicks, I love it.

Droopy boobs I can deal with...that face though.... *SHUDDER*

Flying Saucers Over Oz

01-15-2009, 05:16 PM

Fanboy looking at last page...

"Ungh!"

(Looks again)

"URRNGH!")

(Looks again)

"Well... They are boobs..."

(Sticks hand in pocket...)

Arrogantcur

01-15-2009, 05:28 PM

Fanboy looking at last page...

"Ungh!"

(Looks again)

"URRNGH!")

(Looks again)

"Well... They are boobs..."

(Sticks hand in pocket...)

ROFLMAO!!!!!