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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 16:59:54 GMT -5
I'm thinking of jumping onto Spawn when the new team starts. I also, for some reason, want to jump on Transformers and GI Joe. I'm having 80s childhood withdrawal. Are those books any good? I really want to jump on Transformers as well, but have no idea where to start/where a good jump on point is I think I'm going to try the current Days of Deception story that started in October. It seems to cross over into both books (Transformers and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye). I'm going to grab them and see if I like it.
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Post by Legion on Jan 19, 2015 17:10:26 GMT -5
I really want to jump on Transformers as well, but have no idea where to start/where a good jump on point is I think I'm going to try the current Days of Deception story that started in October. It seems to cross over into both books (Transformers and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye). I'm going to grab them and see if I like it. Let me know, then I'll back issue grab as required. The key for me is it needs to feel very G1
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 17:17:35 GMT -5
I think I'm going to try the current Days of Deception story that started in October. It seems to cross over into both books (Transformers and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye). I'm going to grab them and see if I like it. Let me know, then I'll back issue grab as required. The key for me is it needs to feel very G1 Will do. I'll probably make the order next week, while also pre-ordering the issue that comes out on the 28th. So...remind me in early February. Haha.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 18:08:39 GMT -5
I'm thinking of jumping onto Spawn when the new team starts. I also, for some reason, want to jump on Transformers and GI Joe. I'm having 80s childhood withdrawal. Are those books any good? I really want to jump on Transformers as well, but have no idea where to start/where a good jump on point is I started a few weeks back with CHAOS, the event that took place during the original IDW ongoing series (#23 or so to the end, #31) and led into the formation of the 2 current side-by-side ongoings (MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE and ROBOTS IN DISGUISE). The continuity was kinda deep at the time of CHAOS, I guess, but I was able to get it pretty easily. And it was a storyarc which itself had 2 parts - the Cybertronian outer space stuff, and the Earth-based stuff.So every other issue was a chapter in that half of the story. I actually skipped the Earth stuff and jumped right into the cosmic part, and I made it through quite fine. I'd also include Heart of Darkness (the prelude miniseries to CHAOS), the first Infestation: TF 2-issue mini and the Ironhide miniseries in your initial reading. Of course, I read it like a crazy person and didn't buy trades of everything (which I regret now that I've loved these comics so much), so feel free to accept the generalities of my thinking...
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jan 19, 2015 21:06:46 GMT -5
I was thinking about picking up Red Hood and The Outlaws. Is the current series any good?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 21:08:24 GMT -5
I was thinking about picking up Red Hood and The Outlaws. Is the current series any good? I read it off and on. When Jason Todd was the focus, it was fun. Otherwise, I was sad I grabbed it. I haven't read it for a while, though.
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Post by Jiren on Jan 19, 2015 21:11:40 GMT -5
I was thinking about picking up Red Hood and The Outlaws. Is the current series any good? Yeah it's good It's nothing cerebral or Deep but it's a fun series
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Post by Bishblast on Jan 20, 2015 0:53:42 GMT -5
I'm already seeing promotional photos for the new Hawkeye series... are they even going to release the last couple issues of the current series? Hawkeye #20 had to have been half a year ago almost by now, and I thought they were ending it with #22, did I miss some news or something?
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jan 20, 2015 9:04:10 GMT -5
I was thinking about picking up Red Hood and The Outlaws. Is the current series any good? Yeah it's good It's nothing cerebral or Deep but it's a fun series Yeah I don't need to read anything deep. Thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 9:07:57 GMT -5
I'm already seeing promotional photos for the new Hawkeye series... are they even going to release the last couple issues of the current series? Hawkeye #20 had to have been half a year ago almost by now, and I thought they were ending it with #22, did I miss some news or something? No, it's just delayed as usual, and now it seems the new series (by people who won't be cause for delay) might actually start before the old one is all published.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jan 20, 2015 11:13:23 GMT -5
Was it Matt Fraction that was causing the delays? I don't think I ever heard.
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Post by Jeff Mangum PI on Jan 20, 2015 15:52:56 GMT -5
Marvel confirmed that Secret Wars is the final incursion of the 616 and Ultimate Universes. #0 will be released for FCBD and issues #1 & #2 will all be released in May. Afterwards, it's a monthly ongoing lasting until October where we'll be introduced to the "NEW" Marvel Universe.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 15:54:27 GMT -5
Was it Matt Fraction that was causing the delays? I don't think I ever heard. Both Fraction and Aja, I've heard. Aja's been sick on and off and that was affecting his work - but they scheduled lots of other artists around that. So the majority of the delay is probably on Fraction's shoulders.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 20, 2015 15:55:51 GMT -5
Marvel confirmed that Secret Wars is the final incursion of the 616 and Ultimate Universes. #0 will be released for FCBD and issues #1 & #2 will all be released in May. Afterwards, it's a monthly ongoing lasting until October where we'll be introduced to the "NEW" Marvel Universe. UGH.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jan 20, 2015 15:59:12 GMT -5
I can't wait till Marvel does their version of Hypertime.
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Post by Jeff Mangum PI on Jan 20, 2015 16:04:07 GMT -5
What the hell does the UU even have to offer outside of Miles Morales and Evil Reed? Shit's been dead for six years and we can thank the literary genius that is Jeph Loeb for that.
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Post by Friday Night SmackSown on Jan 20, 2015 16:08:55 GMT -5
I just see this whole thing as a comic version of a kid having fun with their action figures and creating one story out of it, changing it to include figures they keep and removing ones forever lost.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 20, 2015 16:09:51 GMT -5
What the hell does the UU even have to offer outside of Miles Morales and Evil Reed? Shit's been dead for six years and we can thank the literary genius that is Jeph Loeb for that. Hey Mark Millar helped destroy it too... well I guess he just stomped on the shattered pieces of it but still... also with Evil Reed... both Reed's built a doorway to the other dimension already he could just pull a dark beast...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 16:10:03 GMT -5
I really want to jump on Transformers as well, but have no idea where to start/where a good jump on point is I think I'm going to try the current Days of Deception story that started in October. It seems to cross over into both books (Transformers and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye). I'm going to grab them and see if I like it. I can't stress enough how great the IDW Transformers comics are. IT has a very G1 feel and is mostly based on that continuity, but they throw in basically anything cool from other versions of Transformers as well as coming up with new concepts that make you wish they were always part of the franchise. The current More Than Meets The Eye series in my opinion is without a doubt the best comic being published today. At any given time, I have about 20 series I'm following, but this is the only book that I'm actually excited about that makes my day when a new issue comes out and puts me in a better mood. It's sheer brilliance. However, I strongly recommend reading the whole IDW Transformers in proper continuity reading order. There's a reading order list on its Wikipedia page that you can use as a guide. It will seem daunting at first, but while there is some crap in there, most of it is awesome and you will probably tear through it pretty quickly. It also makes you appreciate what's happening in the current books a lot more too. You can just jump in post-Chaos and read good books though, but I can't recommend reading at all enough. You also mentioned that you were feeling nostalgic for 80's stuff in general, so I also recommend doing the exact same thing with IDWs TMNT stuff. Excellent series. As for their G.I. Joe stuff, most of the reboot has been crap, but the stuff written by Mike Costa is amazing and some of the best Joe stories ever told. He also writes them in such a way that you don't have to read the other reboot stuff to follow or enjoy it. In fact, the other reboot stuff is so bad it's almost detrimental to ones enjoyment of the Costa stuff. This is also kind of ironic because the Costa written Transformers stuff is the worst of that series (but you should read it anyway for important continuity stuff). There's also Larry Hamas continuation of the original Joe comic, but I only recommend it if you were a hardcore fanatic of the book back in the day and read every issue of it. There's also DC's He-Man stuff which is also very good.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 20, 2015 16:17:29 GMT -5
So hopefully Marvel at least tells all the writers what's up with this and they stick with what happened and what didn't... unlike how DC did...
Though I have a feeling it's going to become almost identical to the Marvel Cinematic Universe...
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