JDviant
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Post by JDviant on Jul 20, 2012 9:19:34 GMT -5
I wanna read Long Halloween but that friggin' art takes me out of it. I'm the opposite, the story is okay but the art makes it worth mentioning all these years later. Also, the Parker Book Three The Score was indeed amazing.
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Post by stinger on Jul 20, 2012 10:28:52 GMT -5
My pull list was quite small this week: Avengers vs. X-Men: Round 8 - I thought this was one of the better books of the series. I was glad to see {Spoiler} Namor lose his Phoenix power and also excited to see {Spoiler} Professor X getting involved and threatening Cyclops . Thought it was a good way to send this series into the home stretch. Wolverine #309 - So weird that this was released after #310, right in the middle of the Sabretooth Rises storyline. Anyway...I found the story pretty entertaining for what it was - a one-shot featuring Elixir. The drawback was that the book cost $5. This issue was longer, so I hope that's not a permanent change. Saga #5 - If you're not reading Saga, you're doing something wrong. Great sci-fi series geared toward adults. Brian K. Vaughn's writing is superb. Definitely recommend it if you're into sci-fi stuff.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 20, 2012 15:01:55 GMT -5
Reading some news from last week, that Tim Drake is no longer a Robin, going from civilian life to Red Robin?
Hey, remember when the New DCU was suppose to make things easier for non-readers to get into it?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 20, 2012 15:15:01 GMT -5
that change makes 0 sense, especially since they went out of their way to say "oh he was still Batman's sidekick, he's just always been called Red Robin". FFS DC, what difference does it make? the "5 years" bs already makes a mess of Batman's timeline, so what's the point of saying "he was Batman's sidekick but he wasn't Robin"? if he still served as his sidekick then there's no reason for him to not be a Robin (oh but that little s***stain Damian is fine). it's the kind of semantic nonsense that's pretty much killed the Teen Titans (both classic and modern). seriously, I like most of the changes to the new 52, but every single thing they've done (or not done) to the Teen Titans franchise and its related characters has totally ruined those characters. Wally West, Raven and Donna Troy are nowhere to be found either because DC has a boner for Barry Allen (to his own detriment) or because they hate the idea of legacy characters, and the Geoff Johns era of the team have been changed so much that they're all completely unrecognizeable to any long-time fan (which is weird considering at least in theory he's one of the guys running the show). Teen Titans are to the new 52 what the Legion of Superheroes were to Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 23:48:36 GMT -5
Aaand just like that Remender does it again and puts Uncanny X-force back at the top of the best list IMO. {Spoiler}Poor Fantomex
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jul 21, 2012 10:04:44 GMT -5
Aaand just like that Remender does it again and puts Uncanny X-force back at the top of the best list IMO. {Spoiler}Poor Fantomex Said it the other day and will say it again. His writing has simply become 'I kill people, lolz.' Until he can progress a story or character without just killing people off, he's fallen far down my list. Talking of Marvel though, they have finished the Marvel Now teasers, and there are some interesting choices in terms of new books and pushes. We have the New Nova, Sam Alexander, the resurrected Scott Lang version of Ant Man (apparently), crappy dullard Cable, Star-Lord of the Guardians of the Galaxy and what looks to be a new teen book with Wiccan, Kid-Loki and Miss America Chavez.
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Post by stinger on Jul 21, 2012 10:46:19 GMT -5
Aaand just like that Remender does it again and puts Uncanny X-force back at the top of the best list IMO. {Spoiler}Poor Fantomex Said it the other day and will say it again. His writing has simply become 'I kill people, lolz.' Until he can progress a story or character without just killing people off, he's fallen far down my list. Talking of Marvel though, they have finished the Marvel Now teasers, and there are some interesting choices in terms of new books and pushes. We have the New Nova, Sam Alexander, the resurrected Scott Lang version of Ant Man (apparently), crappy dullard Cable, Star-Lord of the Guardians of the Galaxy and what looks to be a new teen book with Wiccan, Kid-Loki and Miss America Chavez. I, for one, am very excited and optimistic about Marvel NOW, especially the stuff going on with Uncanny Avengers, Hickman on the New Avengers, and the All-New X-Men.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jul 21, 2012 11:02:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I dislike the idea of Loeb and Bendis on Cosmic, and especially hate that new Nova, but it's cosmic, so I will buy it anyway. I can get on board with Ant Man, although I'd much prefer Pym over Lang, and that teen book will hopefully be great. I love Wiccan.
Only crappy Cable is a no go for me.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 21, 2012 11:19:31 GMT -5
That is.....seriously the most underwhelming image I've ever seen of a comic teaser. Why is Marvel letting Loeb try to resurrect his kid via comics, again?
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 21, 2012 11:33:32 GMT -5
The hoops they jumped through to make a Sam Jackson Fury in the regular universe still makes me laugh.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 16:08:43 GMT -5
Just acquired In Darkest Knight. Looking forward to reading it. Any of you guys read it?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 21, 2012 19:55:57 GMT -5
That is.....seriously the most underwhelming image I've ever seen of a comic teaser. Why is Marvel letting Loeb try to resurrect his kid via comics, again? apparently he's really nice to pretty much everybody, so they don't know how to say "no" to him. it kinda reminds me of that episode of Friends where Phoebe thinks her mom's been resurrected as a cat. it was absolutely terrible and the only reason it got greenlit was because everyone felt sorry for the writer, whose mother just died. that said it's beyond pathetic at this point. it's okay to grieve publicly but after a while it just feels like you're forcing others to endure it, and it's even worse when it happens at the expense of good story telling. honestly I think nothing short of him getting fired or his own family telling him to knock it off is going to stop him from bringing it up in every story he writes.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Jul 21, 2012 20:56:27 GMT -5
Just acquired In Darkest Knight. Looking forward to reading it. Any of you guys read it? Oh yeah, it's definitely a fun read.
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Post by Alucard on Jul 22, 2012 4:30:13 GMT -5
The hoops they jumped through to make a Sam Jackson Fury in the regular universe still makes me laugh. Nevermind how Coulson got there...
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 22, 2012 7:33:41 GMT -5
yeah Baby Fury's pretty stupid. I mean, yeah he's a black guy but it's not really Nick Fury. this whole thing screams "desperate ploy that will be buried under rubble in 2 years. see also Ben Reilly, Punisher-as-avenging-angel and nonsensical Wolverine Origins book".
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jul 22, 2012 13:19:18 GMT -5
The hoops they jumped through to make a Sam Jackson Fury in the regular universe still makes me laugh. Nevermind how Coulson got there... "Y'know that special forces guy named "Cheese"? He's that secret agent guy you loved from the Marvel Studios movies. Neat, huh?"
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 22, 2012 14:22:49 GMT -5
in all honesty I have zero issue with Coulson being in the comics now. he was a great addition made by the movies. and they didn't shoehorn him in via poorly written contrivance while displacing the real Phil Coulson either.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 22, 2012 15:00:39 GMT -5
While I understand and like Sam MFin' Nick Fury Jackson, I am sort of sad we never not the 616 Fury, aside from the Hoff movie. Would have liked to see one MARVEL movie kind of use that, but considering they locked up Sam for multiple movies, that's the standard now.
Also, I side with the whole "that was a convoluted mess to get that Fury in the main comics", but wonder why they didn't wait to maybe re-introduce Fury in that form after the MARVEL NOW jump, and not right before it.
And one more thing, since the first Fury had the experience from WW2 and the old veteran gimmick, does the Ultimate/Jr version have the same thing, or did they kind of move past that? Like, what makes Fury the man in SHIELD?
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Post by Jiren on Jul 22, 2012 15:02:25 GMT -5
Wonder Woman continues to be awsome.
She also kicked ass in Justice League
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 22, 2012 15:07:24 GMT -5
Wonder Woman continues to be awsome. She also kicked ass in Justice League I do hate that Hal seems to be the butt of the joke in the JL series, though.
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