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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 8, 2014 17:54:20 GMT -5
So I've been reading comics since its glory days in the late 90's. In that time I've seen many many stupid, horrible ideas and stories come to be. I've seen Spider-Man sell his marriage to the devil. I've seen DC reboot its entire universe like a dozen times. I've seen Penance. I've seen them bring Hal Jordan back to life. But it's finally happened. Comics have crossed a line they can never uncross. In Amazing Spider-Man #7 Marvel has done something so despicable, so terrible, the comic book world can never recover... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}THEY KILLED THE SPIDER-FRIENDS!!! HOW CAN THEY KILL THE SPIDER-FRIENDS!!! THE CARTOON THAT TAUGHT ME TO "GO FOR IT" IS NOW DEAD!!! VIDEOMAN, THE GREATEST VILLAIN IN MARVEL HISTORY, NO LONGER HAS FOES TO TERRORIZE!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY LIFE FROM THIS POINT ON!!! I'm sad.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Oct 8, 2014 19:05:36 GMT -5
Just finished this week's Batman. First time in awhile I've uttered an audible "UGH!" after reading the last page of a comic.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 8, 2014 19:49:00 GMT -5
Axis #1 dropped today, and here's the particulars: {Spoiler} - Avengers fighting Plant Man, but start fighting each other due to Red Skull's psychic influence of hate. Iron Man snaps them out of it. - Cyclops seems to have dropped his revolutionary thing and actually helps Havok, before getting the X-Men to work together against Skullslaught. - Wasp is distraught about losing her and Havok's daughter (in events seen during Uncanny Avengers) and questions why she keeps fighting. Important? - Ahab ends up stabbing Genesis/Kid Apocalypse. That'll be important later. - When the Avengers arrive, they reconcile with the X-Men and decide to open up a can of the whoop-ass on Skull. - Issue ends with Red Skull revealing that he's been controlling Iron Man, who in turn had made Adamantium Sentinels and knows the weaknesses to every hero since Civil War. {Spoiler}
Some things work. Some didn't.
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Post by Herman The Tosser on Oct 9, 2014 11:44:13 GMT -5
Finally read the latest Walking Dead today. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Turns out the talking zombies were just human survivors in disguise. Like a mroe sophisticated version or Rick & Glenn in Zombie guts. In a way I'm glad. Talking zombies might have been a "jumping the shark" moment.
Still no sign of Michonne yet... Only the latest Batman issue for me to read (first part of "Endgame", then I'm caught up on the things I actually read.
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Post by Bishblast on Oct 9, 2014 12:37:32 GMT -5
After not really reading much of anything over the last half year or so, I've still been trying to pick up what I had been reading... I'm so far behind on Deadpool (I don't think I even finished "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" story) I almost want to give up, kept reading Hawkeye up until #13 or so and plan on catching up and riding it out til the end, totally fell off of the X Men books when "Battle of The Atom" started up, still reading Daredevil regularly however and plan to continue for the foreseeable future. In the mean time, I've been reading Image books almost exclusively... loved Sex Criminals even though I haven't read past #4 yet, I was really getting into Black Science but never got past #3, I dug Manifest Destiny but I only read the first issue (need trades for this one, those first few issues go for just too much now), ditto on Saga, even though I have picked up the first TPB and have most of the issues after that.
The only new releases I've been reading have been Fade Out, Copperhead, and Low... Fade Out is excellent and easily my favorite of the three, but Copperhead is really cool too, and Low seems to have some real potential for growth.
Went into one of the local comic shops yesterday to catch up on some of my series I collect and try out some new stuff... this has to be the first time I've walked out with way more independent books than Marvel (I've never been a buyer of DC, so that's no different). The only new Marvel book I picked up was Axis.
Edit: oh yeah, felt the need to mention that the art in the new Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier book looks out of this world... looking forward to trying that out.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 9, 2014 20:03:07 GMT -5
The whole "Time Runs Out" thing running in the Avengers titles by Jon Hickman?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 9, 2014 22:01:19 GMT -5
that has to be one of the most creatively bankrupt ideas I've ever heard. at least it's not a reboot.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Oct 9, 2014 22:43:01 GMT -5
Marvel should just rename to Event.
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Post by The Tank on Oct 9, 2014 23:01:00 GMT -5
Yeah, because the LAST new Secret Wars worked SOOOOOOOO well.
Or the one before that.
Or the one bef...no, wait, that was the original Secret Wars.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 9, 2014 23:24:21 GMT -5
Marvel should just rename to Event. I believe that comic book company name is already owned by some guy named Quesada.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 9, 2014 23:34:47 GMT -5
Marvel should just rename to Event. Not like DC's any better, to be fair.
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Post by knightrider01 on Oct 10, 2014 0:57:20 GMT -5
DC just had its first company wide since Flashpoint, so about two years give or take. Original Sin just ended and Axis just begun and already they have announced their next event already. Give DC crap if you want but be factual about it.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 10, 2014 6:22:47 GMT -5
Marvel should just rename to Event. Not like DC's any better, to be fair. after the bullshit with Wally West I think DC shoud just change its logo to Dan Didio and Jim Lee flipping off their fans.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Oct 10, 2014 8:13:04 GMT -5
Marvel should just rename to Event. Not like DC's any better, to be fair. They don't go crazy with the events tho. The weekly series are just that. Weekly series. They had one event in two years since New 52 launched while marvel is announcing events while their now getting into like two.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 10, 2014 8:15:02 GMT -5
Marvel should just rename to Event. I believe that comic book company name is already owned by some guy named Quesada. What in God's name is happening with that cover. The proportions on the two people there are outta control.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 11:36:34 GMT -5
Coming January 2015: And written by the guy who wrote the GI JOE: COBRA series. So this should be great automatically.
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Oct 10, 2014 11:45:32 GMT -5
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 10, 2014 11:56:04 GMT -5
{Spoiler}Secret code for: "That's for having the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four, Fox!" {Spoiler}
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Post by MC Blowfish on Oct 10, 2014 12:06:22 GMT -5
I can't get excited for these events anymore. One ends and the next begins and the cycle goes on and on. They really need to make them more important.
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 10, 2014 16:58:57 GMT -5
-BC
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