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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 27, 2014 15:25:36 GMT -5
PREVIEW: Edge of Spider-Verse, #3
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Post by StuntGranny® on Aug 27, 2014 20:25:18 GMT -5
I am not going to pay 4.99. I would just wait until the get put into a collection and borrow them from the library or read the summaries online Same here. Not to open the whole piracy can of worms, but surely they can see why it's so tempting due to the (at least in my opinion) ridiculous rising prices of comics.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 27, 2014 21:18:54 GMT -5
$4.99? yeesh... times like these I'm glad I'm buying less of the big 2 and more indy stuff.
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Post by Legion on Aug 28, 2014 0:51:40 GMT -5
As I said at the bottom of the last pages, those are all bigger issues. Bigger issues have always commanded higher price points.
I doubt even Marvel are silly enough to think they can go $2 higher than most DC stuff and still keep their $/market share. However if they do, I think they will get a surprise and reverse the prices pretty fast.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2014 10:39:17 GMT -5
Artist Stan Goldberg died yesterday, at age 82. www.bleedingcool.com/2014/09/01/stan-goldberg-dies-ages-82/He started in comics in the 1940s with Timely & Atlas Comics (which later became Marvel), was on-hand at Marvel to work on Spider-Man and Fantastic Four (designer and colorist) as well as many of their humor & girl comics (Millie the Model, Patsy Walker) - ultimately he headed to Archie Comics and was a principal artist there for about 35 years.
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 2, 2014 18:52:14 GMT -5
@gerryconway
Deep into the first script of my new Spider-Man mini series. Great to hear Peter Parker's voice in my head again. Wait. Let me rephrase that
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 7:51:02 GMT -5
Helpful hint: if you're buying ORIGINAL SIN #8 today, then you might wanna buy a variant cover. Somehow the regular edition of the issue has pages out of order, yet in the variant editions all is right...
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 3, 2014 8:35:28 GMT -5
How the hell does that happen?
edit: Also I saw a billboard for the Gotham show on FOX in the subway today ... Why the hell did they change Poison Ivy's Name?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 12:41:24 GMT -5
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 3, 2014 12:46:42 GMT -5
Glad we done with OS
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 3, 2014 14:27:24 GMT -5
Uncanny X-Men #25 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Holo-Charles starts the story of Matthew Malloy, a mutant who appears to explode as a defense mechanism. Whenever he feels nervous or excited or threatened he causes a big boom. But we don't know exactly, because the Professor can't get in the kid's mind without him exploding. He decides to mentally disguise himself as a fellow child (a bald kid named Charlie) to befriend Matthew. He finds out that Matt's pretty sure he killed his parents, confirming that he's somewhat aware of his power but can't control it.
Storm and Cyclops agree that they'll never let Mystique get the school, no matter what the rest of the will says.
As Charlie, the Professor is able to subtly raise mental barriers (he outright says he lobotomized the kid) that cause Matt to A.) forget he has powers and B.) forget about killing his parents. He then makes sure he gets put in a good orphanage. He didn't trust the Avengers at the time to alert them and he couldn't bring him back to the Institute for fear he'd confirm all of humanity's fears of uncontrollable destructive mutants. And he couldn't just leave him - What if Magneto found him?
At this point Cyclops lashes out at Holo-Chuck and starts ranting about how they trusted him when he was a liar and a hypocrite. Iceman snarks back that if he hates Prof. X that much he should just kill him again. This earns Iceman a one-way trip through the wall via laser beam. After some mental encouragement. The two settle down and She-Hulk continues the recording. Wolverine would like to acknowledge at this point that he's on very good behavior today.
Charlie visits Matt one last time during puberty, to check for secondary mutations. And he might have found one, as Matt is able to see through the Professor's illusions. Matthew isn't upset that he had his mind played with; he actually wants to forget again because he doesn't want the power. He gives his X-Men one last mission. Wolverine and Cyclops are to take Rachel and a team and find Malloy. And with that the transmission ends.
Also worth noting is that the rest of the will can't be read until they finish this mission.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 14:32:24 GMT -5
I really liked ORIGINAL SIN. I feel as if I'm in a big minority thinking this, but I don't care. I liked it. Meanwhile, this whole UXM Will of Chuck Xavier drivel makes me want to burn what X-Men comics I still have.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Sept 3, 2014 14:41:50 GMT -5
Got a regular version of Original Sin with all the pages.
Thought the first few issues were interesting, then steadily got worse until it ended. Probably down there with Fear Itself in terms of just "Bleh" crossovers for me.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 3, 2014 14:42:34 GMT -5
I really liked ORIGINAL SIN. I feel as if I'm in a big minority thinking this, but I don't care. I liked it. Meanwhile, this whole UXM Will of Chuck Xavier drivel makes me want to burn what X-Men comics I still have. I havent read Original Sin but yeah... this X-men thing sounds absolutely terrible.
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Post by Talent Name on Sept 3, 2014 15:39:27 GMT -5
I just got into All New X-Men and I like what I have read so far
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Post by Legion on Sept 3, 2014 16:06:58 GMT -5
For me, Original Sin was a great idea that petered out, but the majority of cross over stories have actually been a lot better than the main story.
I'm not keen on the ending of OS, but it's not what I thought it was going to be.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 17:09:54 GMT -5
I really liked ORIGINAL SIN. I feel as if I'm in a big minority thinking this, but I don't care. I liked it. Meanwhile, this whole UXM Will of Chuck Xavier drivel makes me want to burn what X-Men comics I still have. I havent read Original Sin but yeah... this X-men thing sounds absolutely terrible. Not even the worst part of this UXM Original Sin story, either: {Spoiler}(Mystique and Xavier being married tops any other stupid thing other writers could do in recent memory) It's just piling on changes so they can continue Cyclops' continuing hatred for Professor X ("He's a god damn hypocrite! But don't yell at me because I killed him because I didn't kill him!") - which at this point just needs to lead to Cyclops being killed, I can only hope - and Bendis' continuing fascination with the soap opera element of the X-Men (which according to him is the only reason anyone's reading them anyway).....
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Post by Talent Name on Sept 3, 2014 17:39:12 GMT -5
I havent read Original Sin but yeah... this X-men thing sounds absolutely terrible. Not even the worst part of this UXM Original Sin story, either: {Spoiler}{Spoiler}(Mystique and Xavier being married tops any other stupid thing other writers could do in recent memory) It's just piling on changes so they can continue Cyclops' continuing hatred for Professor X ("He's a god damn hypocrite! But don't yell at me because I killed him because I didn't kill him!") - which at this point just needs to lead to Cyclops being killed, I can only hope - and Bendis' continuing fascination with the soap opera element of the X-Men (which according to him is the only reason anyone's reading them anyway)..... But if Present Cyclops die doesn't past Cyclops die as well
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 3, 2014 18:03:19 GMT -5
I havent read Original Sin but yeah... this X-men thing sounds absolutely terrible. Not even the worst part of this UXM Original Sin story, either: {Spoiler}{Spoiler}(Mystique and Xavier being married tops any other stupid thing other writers could do in recent memory) Yeah I saw that too... I meant in general. {Spoiler} and I thought it was bizzare when they had future Xavier show up as teh child of Mystique and Charles... not to mention the other one who is Mystique and Wolverine apparently... the f*** is going on in X-man town...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 18:20:41 GMT -5
Not even the worst part of this UXM Original Sin story, either: {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}(Mystique and Xavier being married tops any other stupid thing other writers could do in recent memory) It's just piling on changes so they can continue Cyclops' continuing hatred for Professor X ("He's a god damn hypocrite! But don't yell at me because I killed him because I didn't kill him!") - which at this point just needs to lead to Cyclops being killed, I can only hope - and Bendis' continuing fascination with the soap opera element of the X-Men (which according to him is the only reason anyone's reading them anyway)..... But if Present Cyclops die doesn't past Cyclops die as well .......I have no idea how that's possible, but knowing comics (and X-Men) I'm certain they've come up with some silly way to explain how if a future/present version of someone dies, their younger self also dies - even though (a) it's usually always the other way around in time travel stories, and (b) past Jean Grey is alive yet present Jean Grey is dead.
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