Thaal Sinestro
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Mar 28, 2014 12:21:30 GMT -5
considering it's a time travel story and freaking EARTH blew up in issue 17, it's pretty obviously not going to stick. like I said, killing characters off and bringing them back is something Remender does in everything. Oh wow, apparently picked up on something relatively small compared to THAT development. lol {Spoiler}{Spoiler}So I take it Scarlet Witch and Rogue (and Wonder Man?) will be fine when this story ends? We could hope. The earth is gone tho. We got bigger worries ;D
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Post by Legion on Mar 28, 2014 13:35:58 GMT -5
Remender doesnt know how to progress a story without death, but he tends to put the pieces back eventually, or someone else does fairly quickly.
And with big characters like that, they for sure will be fine
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 28, 2014 16:55:51 GMT -5
considering it's a time travel story and freaking EARTH blew up in issue 17, it's pretty obviously not going to stick. like I said, killing characters off and bringing them back is something Remender does in everything. Oh wow, apparently picked up on something relatively small compared to THAT development. lol {Spoiler}{Spoiler}So I take it Scarlet Witch and Rogue (and Wonder Man?) will be fine when this story ends? yeah, probably. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}he killed off Fantomex and Daken only to bring them back within like 10 issues of their deaths. he also had Daken kill Punisher only for him to become Frankencastle and then go back to being Frank before the end of Remender's run. and he killed off Toxin/Eddie Brock but Cullen Bunn brought him back like right away, so he kinda half-counts too. he also teased killing off Psylocke but didn't actually do it, and killed off most of the surviving cast of Age of Apocalypse, though those ones mostly stuck and he was only using them because their 616 counterparts were either dead or depowered.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 20:34:23 GMT -5
Wow.
If Geoff Johns and the Infinite Crisis gang hadn't killed (ha!) my fascination with comic book deaths before, I'd guess Remender would have.
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Thaal Sinestro
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Mar 28, 2014 21:01:02 GMT -5
What's Red Skull doing with Prof X's brain these days anyway?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 28, 2014 21:29:05 GMT -5
What's Red Skull doing with Prof X's brain these days anyway? trying to turn himself into Onslaught. or something.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 28, 2014 22:32:27 GMT -5
Yeah, he hasn't been brought up... you'd think that'd be pretty important in one of the seven hundred x-men books
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Post by disqospider on Mar 28, 2014 22:33:54 GMT -5
So I have to know, I haven't been able to pick it up yet, but is the new Moon Knight book any good?
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Post by mo on Mar 28, 2014 23:12:13 GMT -5
Forever Evil sure is living up to it's name with the final issue being delayed until May 21. Some other related titles like the final issues of Nightwing and Justice League of America got pushed back to late May too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2014 6:35:00 GMT -5
So I have to know, I haven't been able to pick it up yet, but is the new Moon Knight book any good? I finally got around to reading it this morning and I really enjoyed it. I don't really know much about Moon Knight, though. I'll be giving it another try for sure.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Mar 29, 2014 10:55:22 GMT -5
Forever Evil sure is living up to it's name with the final issue being delayed until May 21. Some other related titles like the final issues of Nightwing and Justice League of America got pushed back to late May too. f***ing David Finch is the worst. His art isn't even that good yet he takes for f***ing ever to finish. Being a DC fan sure is suffering. Yeah, he hasn't been brought up... you'd think that'd be pretty important in one of the seven hundred x-men books He talked to Nightcrawler in heaven as well in the latest Amazing X-Men. Probably coulda mentioned something.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2014 13:07:26 GMT -5
Yeah, he hasn't been brought up... you'd think that'd be pretty important in one of the seven hundred x-men books Speaking of Prof X and the X-Men..... {Spoiler}Did Xavier show up as a ghost or something in the most recent AMAZING X-MEN, interacting with the returning Nightcrawler or something?
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 29, 2014 13:11:50 GMT -5
Yeah, he hasn't been brought up... you'd think that'd be pretty important in one of the seven hundred x-men books Speaking of Prof X and the X-Men..... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Did Xavier show up as a ghost or something in the most recent AMAZING X-MEN, interacting with the returning Nightcrawler or something? Yeah, he was in an earlier issue too talking to Wolverine in heaven. Neither time did Chuck say anyhting like... you know a Nazi has my brain... could you maybe get that back...
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Mar 29, 2014 14:41:11 GMT -5
Just thought I'd share, today I picked up the Plastic Man DVD collection, featuring the late 70s-early 80s cartoon adventures of ol' Plas. And earlier today I won an eBay auction for The Golden Age Green Lantern Archives, Volume 1.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Mar 29, 2014 15:20:30 GMT -5
So I have to know, I haven't been able to pick it up yet, but is the new Moon Knight book any good? I quite enjoyed the first issue, looking forward to issue #2 this week. Really nice art and Ellis is a great writer to tackle a mentally complex character like that. I also enjoyed Silver Surfer #1. Granted, I'd buy a collection of 19th century obituaries if it was illustrated by the Allreds, but I picked up a Doctor Who-type vibe already which will certainly be nice change of pace from a lot of Surfer books.
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Post by Jiren on Mar 29, 2014 16:45:35 GMT -5
Forever Evil sure is living up to it's name with the final issue being delayed until May 21. Some other related titles like the final issues of Nightwing and Justice League of America got pushed back to late May too. f***ING MAY? Christ
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 30, 2014 8:42:08 GMT -5
So I have to know, I haven't been able to pick it up yet, but is the new Moon Knight book any good? I quite enjoyed the first issue, looking forward to issue #2 this week. Really nice art and Ellis is a great writer to tackle a mentally complex character like that. did he wipe the "I thought I was writing Deadpool" Bendis run from continuity? that was dire. I was really excited for that book because I thought we'd be getting serious Bendis and instead we got goofy Joss Wheddon wannabe Bendis. so excited for that book. I'm also adding Rat Queens to my pull list because I've heard too many good things and the best books I'm reading these days are mostly Image. man they came a long way from the company that published the Rob Liefeld crap that even Marvel thought was too stupid.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 30, 2014 8:43:26 GMT -5
Forever Evil sure is living up to it's name with the final issue being delayed until May 21. Some other related titles like the final issues of Nightwing and Justice League of America got pushed back to late May too. f***ING MAY? Christ it's times like these that I'm really gload the only DC books I read these days are mostly the self-contained stuff like Animal Man and Wonder Woman. and one of them's ending and the other I'm dropping when Azzarello leaves.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Mar 30, 2014 9:09:32 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed the first issue, looking forward to issue #2 this week. Really nice art and Ellis is a great writer to tackle a mentally complex character like that. did he wipe the "I thought I was writing Deadpool" Bendis run from continuity? that was dire. I was really excited for that book because I thought we'd be getting serious Bendis and instead we got goofy Joss Wheddon wannabe Bendis. so excited for that book. I'm also adding Rat Queens to my pull list because I've heard too many good things and the best books I'm reading these days are mostly Image. man they came a long way from the company that published the Rob Liefeld crap that even Marvel thought was too stupid. The events of Bendis' horrible run happened, but Ellis explains them rather than just throw them out. Moon Knight doesn't have multiple personality disorder, he has a god in his brain. All his different personas are his brain's way of coping with something that crushing and unexplained taking up residence in his mind. So while Ellis does mention Moon Knight running around LA yelling at invisible superheroes, this book is a million miles away from that. He's covertly working for the police and is working to get a handle on having Khonshu in his head. And speaking of Image, I'm so glad to see Jonathan Hickman seems to be putting more attention towards Secret. It's a crime/black ops book with a great plot (CIA/KGB agents set up a secret slush fund during the Cold War for their retirement, someone stole it) and it's great to see Hickman's disintegrating Avengers work isn't affecting his entire output.
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Post by H-Virus on Mar 30, 2014 11:11:06 GMT -5
it's times like these that I'm really gload the only DC books I read these days are mostly the self-contained stuff like Animal Man and Wonder Woman. and one of them's ending and the other I'm dropping when Azzarello leaves. When is Azzarello leaving? If it's any time sooner than five years from now I'm gonna be sad.
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