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Post by Legion on Jan 7, 2014 10:55:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I was hoping for Omnibus or an couple of OHC, but no, just some double up trades.
There is, however, both an Annihilation and an Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus coming in the next few months!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 11:08:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I was hoping for Omnibus or an couple of OHC, but no, just some double up trades. It's something, at least. Plus their Complete Collection trades seem very well done for softcover books. And if there's extra content outside the main series (like a She-Hulk one-shot that DnA's team guest starred in), they usually include that kind of stuff.
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Post by Legion on Jan 7, 2014 11:59:58 GMT -5
True, although sometimes they involve weird things, like the Infinity Gauntlet aftermath book which includes a slew of Silver Surfer issues, that while great (as was most of Surfer's 90s series up until about issue 90) had nothing to do with the IG or the aftermath.
They appear to be getting included in the IG Omni, while Warlock and the Infinty Watch 1 and 2, the actual epilogue to the event, it going to be missing.
Marvel make some odd choices in their collections at times.....
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 7, 2014 12:04:31 GMT -5
Gotta disagree. Remender feeling he cannot move ANY story that he writes on without death is getting old. ad he brings back the characters he kills within like 5 issues or so. he's a great writer but he really needs to think of a new tune. Hell it already happened IN Uncanny Avengers itself they started by Killing Grim Reaper... and he's back as one of the Horsemen.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 7, 2014 12:23:20 GMT -5
ad he brings back the characters he kills within like 5 issues or so. he's a great writer but he really needs to think of a new tune. Hell it already happened IN Uncanny Avengers itself they started by Killing Grim Reaper... and he's back as one of the Horsemen. heck if you think of his Uncanny X-Force and Uncanny Avengers as 2 parts of the same story, Daken got killed off only to come back 8 issues later, too. and it wasn't him, but Cullen Bunn brought Toxin/Eddie Brock back pretty soon after Remender killed him off in Venom.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 15:28:59 GMT -5
True, although sometimes they involve weird things, like the Infinity Gauntlet aftermath book which includes a slew of Silver Surfer issues, that while great (as was most of Surfer's 90s series up until about issue 90) had nothing to do with the IG or the aftermath. They appear to be getting included in the IG Omni, while Warlock and the Infinty Watch 1 and 2, the actual epilogue to the event, it going to be missing. Marvel make some odd choices in their collections at times..... Yeah. A few days ago I was looking for a more updated Fatal Attractions TPB and was shocked to see that it was (in the last year or so?) released as an Omnibus. ......an Omnibus. Fatal Attractions was a 5 or 6 part story across all the titles (it's when Magneto "returned to life" after Lee/Claremont "killed" him and tore Wolvie's adamantium out), so why is it several hundred pag-- --and then I saw the content list included a year's worth of UNCANNY X-MEN comics that preceded that series' crossover issue of the event. I know there were a couple issues in there which were related/important to the leadup (Magneto's return kinda happened in #300, Illyana died a couple issues later, which definitely factor's into FA's climax), but not everything.... So suddenly a TPB purchase turned.....into either nothing (I think the old TPB format is out of whack with the current style) or maybe grabbing a couple of the single issues that look good. But an Omnibus is just too much, ESPECIALLY if they're adding in so many additional/not necessarily vital issues to the publication.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 7, 2014 18:06:07 GMT -5
Hooray my Deadpool Classic trade finally showed up in the mail.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 22:46:10 GMT -5
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Post by Legion on Jan 8, 2014 1:51:11 GMT -5
Haven't they canned that already?
Originally it was an on going, now it's down to a 6 issue mini?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 8, 2014 9:43:40 GMT -5
Haven't they canned that already? Originally it was an on going, now it's down to a 6 issue mini? wouldn't surprise me. female superheroes (with the exception of Wonder Woman and Birds of Prey) are usually pretty poor sellers, especially if it's a new one without a following. even established ones like Black Widow and Spider-woman have had trouble getting a foothold in the modern superhero market. it's unfortunate, but it's true. even the awesome Captain Marvel (which this book ties into) isn't exactly lighting up the sales, and I don't think the relaunch is going to help any.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 8, 2014 12:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by Legion on Jan 8, 2014 13:29:38 GMT -5
I see DC announced their latest weekly event book.
I smell another reboot.....
Although to be fair, everything DC does makes me expect the next reboot
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Post by Zabel Zarock on Jan 8, 2014 13:38:28 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever dropped a title faster and harder than I have Batwoman after Williams left, damn.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 19:11:34 GMT -5
Looks like Peter Milligan is returning to one of his more popular creations.......
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 21:48:09 GMT -5
I'm pretty excited about Iron Fist getting an on-going. I've missed Iron Fist being featured a bit.
Also...http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/01/08/amazing-spider-man-to-relaunch/
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Post by Legion on Jan 9, 2014 6:34:24 GMT -5
Looks like Peter Milligan is returning to one of his more popular creations....... Not a book for me, but what a 'Teaser' maybe if it was Allred on art...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 6:49:07 GMT -5
Looks like Peter Milligan is returning to one of his more popular creations....... Not a book for me, but what a 'Teaser' maybe if it was Allred on art... I'm sure they'll get him for some covers or something, he's just over aways doing SILVER SURFER with Slott. Lafuente seems the kind of artist to bring a quirky look to this book, though. There was a touch of something off with his ULTIMATE SPIDEY art (something good) that could lend well to Doop.
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Post by Legion on Jan 9, 2014 8:10:46 GMT -5
I just dont think Doop is that compelling a character. He always seemed like a quirk to me, fun in a team and ok for the odd one shot comedy thing or background showing, but as an on going.....
That Slott/Allred Surfer book looks great, and there are a few other new Marvel books I'm looking to as well, plus Aaron's Watcher murder book with proper Nick Fury looks pretty good as well.
Decent new year haul to come me thinks
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 8:45:28 GMT -5
Well they'll need to surround Doop with characters who..........y'know............speak a language of this planet. Looking forward to Charles Soule's SHE-HULK (a return to that legal world of hers, spiced up with Soule's great writing and real-life legal experience) and perhaps this LOKI, AGENT OF ASGARD series too.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 9, 2014 10:04:01 GMT -5
just a question guys; does anybody else read every character with a specific voice every time? I mean, there's obvious ones (I bet everyone here hears Kevin Conroy's voice for Batman), but does anyoone else here have a specific voice they hear for every character they read? (even ones who never had an animation counterpart). for example, I've been reading since long before Hawkeye had any animated equivalent so I always read him with Patrick Warburton's voice, and Deadpool with Dan Castalanetta's Krusty the Klown voice. I usually pull from video games and cartoons if they have an equivalent but if not I'll go with different voices either from video games, cartoons or anime that I think fit the character, or a famous actor with a distinctive voice that I think fits the character (Alan Rickman for Loki, Sylvester Stallone for Guy Gardner).
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