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Post by stinger on Mar 2, 2013 12:25:22 GMT -5
Glad I'm not the only one finding it impossible to get all the Marvel titles they want. I don't know why they don't go to monthly releases like DC, but I guess they figure to make more money this way or they wouldn't do it. It is all the 3.99 books too. I guess it worked well for Spider-man and Wolvie and the X so they decided to get all so called "marquee" titles in on it. Yeah. I already buy a ton of Marvel books, but there others I'd like to pick up - Thor: God of Thunder, Guardians of the Galaxy, Cable and X-Force, Secret Avengers - that I don't know if I can get because I'm just spending too much as it is. Avengers is really good, but really needs to be a monthly title. I really wouldn't mind All-New X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men and Superior Spider-Man going to monthly either.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Mar 2, 2013 12:27:21 GMT -5
I think Marvel needs to slow down the releases a bit. this kind of thing is only going to make people drop books they'd otherwise keep up with because there's no way they can buy so many. I've already dropped a couple because of the insane schedule and price.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 13:08:36 GMT -5
I picked up the new JLA. It was a nice setup, and I'd like to see where this goes.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 3, 2013 8:40:03 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2013 14:24:39 GMT -5
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Post by hotshotalex on Mar 4, 2013 14:29:55 GMT -5
Mulder and Scully or no buys. No Doggett and Reyes
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 4, 2013 14:31:48 GMT -5
Mulder and Scully or no buys. No Doggett and Reyes The linked article pretty much confirm Mulder & Scully as the main chracters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2013 15:04:15 GMT -5
Mulder and Scully or no buys. No Doggett and Reyes The linked article pretty much confirm Mulder & Scully as the main chracters. They picked a good team to work on it. Joe Harris is a solid writer and Walsh & Bellaire are a great art team. Their work on Image's Comeback pretty much seals the deal on that one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2013 15:47:28 GMT -5
I picked up the new JLA. It was a nice setup, and I'd like to see where this goes. Right off the bat it beats the JLI reboot by giving the team a real raison d'être. Hell they even tried to get people to care for vibe. They're not screwing around ;D
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Post by BRAINFADE on Mar 5, 2013 8:33:35 GMT -5
The absolute insanity of Uncanny Avengers is one of the reasons I keep coming back to it. It's seriously my favourite title at the moment, just for how insane it is. Absolutely lost my shit for the last page of #4. I also just read Young Avengers #2, and, just like Legion, thought it was glorious.
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Post by Legion on Mar 6, 2013 15:02:03 GMT -5
The absolute insanity of Uncanny Avengers is one of the reasons I keep coming back to it. It's seriously my favourite title at the moment, just for how insane it is. Absolutely lost my s*** for the last page of #4. I also just read Young Avengers #2, and, just like Legion, thought it was glorious. And yet it's one of the few titles Marvel are sticking at monthly with
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Post by BRAINFADE on Mar 6, 2013 15:15:22 GMT -5
It's seriously my favourite title at the moment, just for how insane it is. Absolutely lost my s*** for the last page of #4. I also just read Young Avengers #2, and, just like Legion, thought it was glorious. And yet it's one of the few titles Marvel are sticking at monthly with Yeah, go figure. I'm gonna have to think about dropping a title or two, it's just too expensive at more than one a month for most of them. Anyone pick up Age Of Ultron today?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 7, 2013 11:06:14 GMT -5
the real question is, does anyone even give a shit about Age of Ultron? I'm serious, Marvel's completely and utterly destroyed any interest I'd have in a big crossover for the next several years. lets see them go a year without one (let alone two) and maybe I might care again.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 7, 2013 11:11:54 GMT -5
Same here; and I love Ultron.
Then again, I'm really not reading superhero anything right now tbh.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Mar 7, 2013 11:56:24 GMT -5
Well that's it really, isn't it? Although I am enjoying Marvel right now, they have completely killed big event storylines by simply doing too many of the damn things. And it's a shame, because, like $lim, I love Ultron. Marvel have burned us too many times now with crappy events, they seriously need to take a few years break from doing them at least.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 7, 2013 12:30:00 GMT -5
I like Ultron, too. it's just, it's very hard to get into anything the company is doing when they feel like tearing up the lawn and restarting from scratch every year. say what you will about DC but at least they don't oversaturate their fans with constant pointless events and let the individual books tell their own stories as much as possible. hell, you could be reading a book and completely avoid anything to do with Final Crisis or Blackest Night at all. it's been over a year since Flashpoint and there isn't another big crossover anywhere in sight. the biggest one is Trinity War, and that looks like its being confined to the Justice League books. heck Wonder Woman's one of the main characters in that story and it probably won't even be referenced in her solo book at all.
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Post by Legion on Mar 7, 2013 13:59:23 GMT -5
I will buy stories I'm interested in.
Ultron War? - Yes.
Fear Itself, skipped it totally.
AvX - actually changed my opinion on that event half way through and enjoyed some of it.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 7, 2013 15:50:54 GMT -5
The last page of the first issue of "Age of Ultron" {Spoiler}With Captain America slumped against the wall in a sign of hopelessness Kinda sums up my feelings on most Marvel events these days.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 7, 2013 18:13:04 GMT -5
when 2012 started I was reading 7 Marvel books and only 1 DC book. now I'm reading 5 DC books and only 2 Marvel books. just puts it into perspective what a difference one terribly executed overhaul can make. Marvel NOW just gave me an excuse to drop most of the books I was reading because they were coming to an end and gave me nothing worth starting.
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Post by Legion on Mar 7, 2013 18:16:24 GMT -5
Or puts in to perspective how fragile peoples interests are.
For me, Marvel still interests me far more than DC. Marvel, while they do over do with events, dont, at least, throw the baby out with the bath water.
For all their events, at least they dont throw everything away every time they have an event.
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