JDviant
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Post by JDviant on Jan 24, 2013 20:59:37 GMT -5
I might be in the Minority here but I really enjoyed both "Superman Earth 2" books. I haven't read them, but I like the idea that the series is straying from your typical stories and willing to do new things with the character, even if its not something I'd like. Keeps it from being a straight rehash.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 24, 2013 21:53:42 GMT -5
I have to say Im strongly considering adding Hickman's Avengers to my pull list. it's like he read my mind about what kind of book the Avengers should be. he somehow found a way to add a Superman knockoff to the team and NOT have it suck.
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H-Virus
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Post by H-Virus on Jan 24, 2013 22:07:10 GMT -5
Has anyone here read the first ten or so issues of Batwoman? I started in on the series at the Medusa arc when she started teaming with Wonder Woman and have been really enjoying it, but I'm wondering if the stuff that happened before that is worth checking out?
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Post by Jiren on Jan 24, 2013 22:26:34 GMT -5
Has anyone here read the first ten or so issues of Batwoman? I started in on the series at the Medusa arc when she started teaming with Wonder Woman and have been really enjoying it, but I'm wondering if the stuff that happened before that is worth checking out? Yeah go for it, it's not bad. But it's jumpy timeline can be annoying
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Post by Alucard on Jan 24, 2013 23:11:40 GMT -5
{Spoiler}Though, given the prominence of Bucky & Natasha in Captain America: Winter Soldier, I could see Marvel putting the two back together again, in time for April 2014. {Spoiler}Or Natasha and Clint..... GO TEAM FRIENDZONE! Nah, even in the comics, dude's like "Naw, that's your girl". All initial rumors also report it will touch on their romance too. And I don't mean Bartonxher. So yeah. I wouldn't be SURPRISED if it happened, y'know, just to spite me. I just kinda don't see it happening. If it does, either way, a movie had my favorite character in it, close enough. xD
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 25, 2013 8:09:03 GMT -5
{Spoiler}Or Natasha and Clint..... GO TEAM FRIENDZONE! Nah, even in the comics, dude's like "Naw, that's your girl". All initial rumors also report it will touch on their romance too. And I don't mean Bartonxher. So yeah. I wouldn't be SURPRISED if it happened, y'know, just to spite me. I just kinda don't see it happening. If it does, either way, a movie had my favorite character in it, close enough. xD am I the only one who wants Clint and Mockingbird back together? them breaking up again was kind of abrupt. I still don't buy the Hawkeye/Spider-woman pairing (Jessica x Carol all the way ).
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Post by Zabel Zarock on Jan 25, 2013 17:30:16 GMT -5
Nah CarolxPete all the way, they were pretty cute together in anything they were both in. I like MJ but I've always found Pete's relationship with other Supes more entertaining.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jan 25, 2013 17:55:55 GMT -5
Ewwww!
No!
Carol and Spider-Man never worked for me.
CarolxSimon is the way forward. Wonder Man can do better than the chaotic robot fetishist and you dont really get much better than Carol for super-babes.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 25, 2013 18:08:05 GMT -5
I just want Carol & Spidey to be good friends, nothing more, nothing less. 'Sides, Carol/Jess is pretty much what I adhere to.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 26, 2013 10:51:49 GMT -5
I just want Carol & Spidey to be good friends, nothing more, nothing less. 'Sides, Carol/Jess is pretty much what I adhere to. much like Luke Cage/Iron Fist or Booster/Beetle it's practically canon but in all seriousness I really liked the Carol x Wonder Man pairing, too. it's kinda weird that Bendis spent a while developing it and other writers were using it as well only for it to get dropped out of the blue.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jan 26, 2013 12:06:47 GMT -5
The Carol/Simon pairing is one of the few things Bendis did that I approve of, mostly 'cause it's steeped in history.
Gotta admit, though, with Rogue and Simon being on the same Avengers team now, I'm kinda curious if there'll be any development between those two based on how Simon is one of the few dudes Rogue can safely touch, and I seem to recall a brief romance between her and Colossus that started for the same reason.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2013 12:12:00 GMT -5
am I the only one who wants Clint and Mockingbird back together? them breaking up again was kind of abrupt. I still don't buy the Hawkeye/Spider-woman pairing (Jessica x Carol all the way ). Hawkeye/Spider-Woman was a Bendis thing. I kinda expect it to be gone as he's no longer the master Avengers writer (although I'm now expecting Hawkeye/Black Widow, to mirror the thing they had going in the movie). It was also dumb - S-W was one of his pet project characters, who he tended to overutilize in all sorts of weird shoe-horned ways. So naturally, she's hooking up with strangely-seperated-from-Mockingbird Hawkeye all of a sudden.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 26, 2013 12:28:22 GMT -5
The Carol/Simon pairing is one of the few things Bendis did that I approve of, mostly 'cause it's steeped in history. Gotta admit, though, with Rogue and Simon being on the same Avengers team now, I'm kinda curious if there'll be any development between those two based on how Simon is one of the few dudes Rogue can safely touch, and I seem to recall a brief romance between her and Colossus that started for the same reason. Rogue can touch anyone now. the writers finally figured out it was tired as hell as a plot device. unless that's been changed.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 26, 2013 12:31:19 GMT -5
am I the only one who wants Clint and Mockingbird back together? them breaking up again was kind of abrupt. I still don't buy the Hawkeye/Spider-woman pairing (Jessica x Carol all the way ). Hawkeye/Spider-Woman was a Bendis thing. I kinda expect it to be gone as he's no longer the master Avengers writer (although I'm now expecting Hawkeye/Black Widow, to mirror the thing they had going in the movie). It was also dumb - S-W was one of his pet project characters, who he tended to overutilize in all sorts of weird shoe-horned ways. So naturally, she's hooking up with strangely-seperated-from-Mockingbird Hawkeye all of a sudden. what was really bad was how it was written. zero build-up and Spider-woman, a character Bendis previously went out of his way to make a big deal of, one of the few characters in the book that he consistently wrote well, suddenly gets reduced to a giggling schoolgirl. he did the same thing with Wasp before he killed her off, turning her from an awesome character who led several teams of Avengers to a shallow party-girl who suddenly apparently hates Hank for no adequately explored reason and doesn't want to be a superhero.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jan 26, 2013 12:32:26 GMT -5
Rogue belongs with Magneto
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 26, 2013 12:43:55 GMT -5
Rogue belongs with Gambit fixed for guy whose not old enough to be her great grandfather. alternately, fixed for those of us who got into X-men because of the early 90s animated series.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jan 26, 2013 12:59:11 GMT -5
Nah, that relationship just didnt work.
Her and Magneto does work. It feels right. Gambit......eternal bachelor.
Age is just a number.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 26, 2013 13:09:51 GMT -5
it's one of those things, I know it shouldn't bug me because COMIC BOOKS, but Magneto is such a weird character in terms of his chronology. he's supposed to be in his mid-late fifties, but he was a teenager during the holocaust, and unlike Cap he doesn't have any "frozen in an iceberg for Xty years" excuse to explain it. it's one of those things that's central to the character so you can't really get rid of it, but at the same time it just makes Magneto's chronology an even bigger Elephant in the Room as time goes on.
I keep thinking they should change it from "Holocaust survivor" to what they did in the cartoon where it was "survived something Holocaust-esque" but you just know there would be a massive backlash if they did.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jan 26, 2013 13:14:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I think he's been a clone and had some alien age rays and all sorts though.
They could just say he has access to Infinity formula ala Fury and co. if they wanted a simply answer
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 26, 2013 13:57:24 GMT -5
They could also say that he has another mutation that slows down his aging or something.
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