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Post by Legion on Jul 28, 2010 20:05:30 GMT -5
*has only read a couple of my books for the week so far* Jason Aaron's current Bullseye arc in Punishermax is all kinds of f'ed up but absolutely incredible. And I did NOT see that twist ending for Kevin Smith's Batman: The Widening Gyre coming AT ALL!!! Yeah, he admited that he writes it while high as a kite and thinks that makes him more creative and a better writer........due to the big rod up my arse, I refuse to read it on those grounds.
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Post by anticonscience on Jul 28, 2010 20:12:31 GMT -5
Action Comics was damn good too. I really like the direction that this book is taking.
Just finished Deadpool Team-Up and haven't laughed that hard or that much reading a comic in quite some time.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jul 28, 2010 20:24:02 GMT -5
it was character derailment. Wanda had already dealt with her kids not being real a very long time ago. Bendis just threw it out the window because he thought "well I have a better story" that was just a thinly veiled excuse to turn Wanda into a mass murdering psycho so he could kill off all the Avengers he didn't like (e.g. Ant-man) and render Wanda radioactive for future writers. he increased her powers to godlike levels with no explanation just so the events of the story could happen how he wanted them to, rather than how they would if he bothered to explain anything. and on top of that he had Dr. Strange make that asinine comment about how there is no Chaos Magic when he himself has used it before.besides that, being upset about your kids is hardly the kind of thing that makes someone whose previously been shown to be a stable human fly off the handle and murder their friends (and HUSBAND!). the story also loses points for turning Wasp into an airheaded bitch and making more tasteless wifebeater jokes at the expense of Hank Pym (seriously, read the interivew Bendis did after it was finished, he went on a tirade about how horrible Hank Pym is for hitting his wife once). House of M just made the whole mess worse by turning Wanda's powers up even higher just because Bendis couldn't come up with a real plot progression and had to turn her into a deus ex machina AGAIN for the second time in less than 2 years. the whole "should we kill Wanda?" thing was made even dumber by Joss Wheddon writing a story in Astonishing X-men about mutant power negating collars AT THE SAME TIME! it's like the Superboy-Prime reality punch, its just turning a pre-existing character into a deus ex machina because you don't want to have to put any effort into telling a good story, and not even caring what that does to the character in question. his subsequent run on Avengers largely sucking balls didn't help. Well, the last point is just bad editing, and with Whedon, it might have taken him ten years to write the issue talking about it. Either way, it was a continuation in my book. She had the kids taken away via memory wipe, the memory came back, she realised everyone, all her friends, her robot husband and even the woman she likely looked at like a mother (Agatha) had been lying to her for years and even blocked out her memories so that she couldn't grieve properly. To me, that is more than enough reason to go mental, especially if your powers are actually more powerful than anyone ever thought and you were doing things a bit subconsciously (admited, the fact her powers are just amped up for the sake of it is a bit irksome, but let's face it, characters get that sort of thing all the time, up or down). House of M was a bit of a train wreck, but it set up Son of M and Silent War, which were brilliant stories even if they did show that Quicksilver was also mental. I guess it comes down to taste. I thought it was a decent story that made a crappy character interesting for the first time in years and eventually gives us whatever is going to happen in Children's Crusade. Other saw it as character rape. I will, however, agree that Bendis hates Pym and that really shows and is really annoying. Okay, here's my views on this particular subject. Like Baldobomb, I didn't really care for them having Wanda go crazy like that. It just seemed completely random and seemed to be a lot like what they do with Pym and the wife-beating thing: recycling something that's already been put to bed already as if the issue had never been resolved. However, that said, I could have forgiven that if the story eventually ended with Scarlet Witch going back to normal. It didn't, though. It ended with one of my favorite Avengers being swept away and pretty much ignored for... what? How long has it been since House of M? I think she slept with Hawkeye once after he returned and that's been that... and I HATE that. I know she's a character who has her detractors, but I personally love that character and would have liked to have been able to read more stories about her. In the end, while I was certainly no fan of them doing the "Scarlet Witch goes psycho" thing again, I would have been able to stomach it a lot more if the ending hadn't have tossed away the character. Also, on the Tony Stark/Civil War/arrogance thing... yeah, THAT I didn't have much of a problem with. It was him taking on such a pro-government role that I didn't like. It just didn't fit the character in my opinion, and kinda flew in the face of some of the stuff that he had gone through in recent years during the Busiek run on the Avengers. But, you nailed the crux of the matter on the head: it comes down to taste. If you like a character, then changes that take away what you like about the character aren't going to go over very well with you. If you don't, then you're either not going to care or you're going to like 'em. Simple as.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Jul 29, 2010 1:48:41 GMT -5
well, i figured since it is kinda a comic con. im pretty damn excited for the con here in chicago this year. www.wizardworld.com/home-ch.htmlim pretty excited for Brian Azzarello, Gary Friedrich, David Mack, and James O'Barr. i cant wait to meet those guys. and of corse the wrestlers that are gonna be there as well. i suspect being surrounded by comic book venders, and all the people in the artists alley raven might spend a combined 30 min in his booth per day.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jul 29, 2010 8:51:19 GMT -5
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Post by Arturo Classico on Jul 29, 2010 9:15:53 GMT -5
This looks insanely awesome.
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Post by Legion on Jul 29, 2010 9:20:21 GMT -5
It really does. I'm also thinking it means that the Infinity Gauntlet is going to be for the Avengers film
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jul 29, 2010 9:53:27 GMT -5
Friggin'. Awesome.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 29, 2010 10:10:01 GMT -5
anybody else catch the trailer for the new Avengers cartoon? it looks really good, it's the original 6 Avengers + Black Widow, Hawkeye and I think I saw Black Panther.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2010 10:16:17 GMT -5
Well here's this
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Post by Legion on Jul 29, 2010 11:07:02 GMT -5
Yeah, I was thinking that might suck, but it looks pretty cool.........and then Hamill shows up doing his Joker voice for Loki and I'm 100% sold
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2010 11:53:03 GMT -5
I saw Panther but not Widow
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jul 29, 2010 12:11:47 GMT -5
That Avengers cartoon looks absolutely amazing.
Too bad I don't get the channel it comes on. -sigh-
Also, Black Widow was in it, but only for a few brief seconds; you can see her pulling on her glove/stinger thing in the foreground, but that's about it, I think.
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Post by Grendel on Jul 29, 2010 13:59:44 GMT -5
This looks insanely awesome. Damn Betcha!
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 29, 2010 14:06:49 GMT -5
*has only read a couple of my books for the week so far* Jason Aaron's current Bullseye arc in Punishermax is all kinds of f'ed up but absolutely incredible. And I did NOT see that twist ending for Kevin Smith's Batman: The Widening Gyre coming AT ALL!!! Yeah, he admited that he writes it while high as a kite and thinks that makes him more creative and a better writer........due to the big rod up my arse, I refuse to read it on those grounds. hmm... seems to work for Grant Morrison. 'course he's also a much better comic writer than Kevin Smith. and he's also batshit insane.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 29, 2010 15:39:48 GMT -5
Reading the new "New Avengers", and I'll I say thing. Frank Cho can draw real nice "beefy" women. Frank Cho, however, cannot draw those same women pregnant. Honestly, I got to the picture of {Spoiler}pregnant Hela in the book, and I laughed.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jul 29, 2010 15:46:39 GMT -5
Yeah, he admited that he writes it while high as a kite and thinks that makes him more creative and a better writer........due to the big rod up my arse, I refuse to read it on those grounds. hmm... seems to work for Grant Morrison. 'course he's also a much better comic writer than Kevin Smith. and he's also bats*** insane. Morrison has lost me at the moment. I have no idea what is going on in any of his bat books.
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Post by The Tank on Jul 29, 2010 15:47:27 GMT -5
hmm... seems to work for Grant Morrison. 'course he's also a much better comic writer than Kevin Smith. and he's also bats*** insane. Morrison has lost me at the moment. I have no idea what is going on in any of his bat books. Grant Morrison's books are crazy? So.......business as usual.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 29, 2010 17:08:26 GMT -5
hmm... seems to work for Grant Morrison. 'course he's also a much better comic writer than Kevin Smith. and he's also bats*** insane. Morrison has lost me at the moment. I have no idea what is going on in any of his bat books. Seriously. I think the individual issues are usually brilliant(with the exception of this last Return Of Bruce Wayne, which was a dud with me), but I have NO idea how to put them all together into a coherent picture. All I can really gather is that Bruce is, for all intents and purposes, a bomb, and that Dr. Hurt/Thomas Wayne(?) might just be the Devil. Which is a little hokey for me, but, again, he's a great writer, so I got with it.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jul 29, 2010 18:18:16 GMT -5
Yeah, when he's all done, it'll likely be a great story.........but I have a feeling until October, it's going to be damn confusing in Gotham.
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