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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 4, 2015 17:15:56 GMT -5
I can see the kid the only one to make it at issue end
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Post by weaselboy on Aug 4, 2015 17:23:35 GMT -5
Is Batman Knightfall any good? The lead-up to Batman vs. Bane portion of KnightFall was well done, I thought. A giant gauntlet match where the final guy in it was responsible for the whole thing and just used the whole match to wear his opponent down to nothing before.........well......"KRACK!!" The aftermath of "KRACK!!" to Batman #500 part of KnightFall was ok, but all the stuff that followed #500 (2 or 3 different KnightQuest chapters, and the inevitable KnightsEnd) was, I thought, pretty ridiculous. Azrael was a weird chapter of the Batman story, IMO, even back then, and getting things back to normal was a relief. There's quite a good radio play version of it available on ITunes!
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 4, 2015 17:39:16 GMT -5
I can see the kid the only one to make it at issue end Yeah, I just see Marvel using it as the perfect opportunity to make the mainstream Peter more unlikeable by making him a deadbeat dad on top of a playboy businessman, not having the time for an adopted daughter, and the kid will endure a broken home dynamic the way MJ suffered when she was younger, with neither of the regular versions of her parents getting together for her sake because of devil magic influencing their decisions.
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 4, 2015 21:36:02 GMT -5
This week's Secret Wars books:
Age of Apocalypse #2 Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #3 Civil War #2 Future Imperfect #4 Giant Size Little Marvel AVX #3 Guardians of Knowhere #2 Infinity Guantlet #3 Ms Marvel #17 Red Skull #2 Siege #2 Spider-Island #2 Ultimate End #3
SW #5 out next week
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 5, 2015 11:12:56 GMT -5
Renew Your Vows#3 was alright, {Spoiler}we get a little follow-up on what happened to Power Pack from last issue, a little bit more on the resistance, Regent sees something special in Peter's powers, and Peter cuts loose on Ock and Hobgoblin. Pretty cool to see Mysterio and Kraven using their smarts to work out that Peter has a family, prompting Regent to summon his citizens to Avengers Mansion for compulsary screening. I take it Annie will be trained by the resistance following her and MJ's abduction by Bobbi and Prowler
SHIELD also consider Peter a coward for ducking out of the Avengers and Regent skirmish eight years prior Is anyone making sense of Ultimate End? The latest issue seemed to be taking a stab at explanations but it just went over my poor head. {Spoiler}Worse, despite being promoted on the cover, Miles only shows up on the LAST PAGE
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Post by Legion on Aug 5, 2015 11:22:25 GMT -5
Marvel are picking up a lot of flack regarding the new Hercules series and Axel Alonso making it clear that 616 Herc is straight, despite his previous series making him bi.
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Post by Crimson on Aug 5, 2015 12:16:23 GMT -5
Is anyone making sense of Ultimate End? The latest issue seemed to be taking a stab at explanations but it just went over my poor head. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Worse, despite being promoted on the cover, Miles only shows up on the LAST PAGE Ultimate End has been pissing me of just because of how convoluted the story is. That and the fact that it really should have been the swan song to the Ultimate Universe.
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 5, 2015 13:18:54 GMT -5
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 5, 2015 17:46:53 GMT -5
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 5, 2015 18:56:50 GMT -5
So in Spider-island #2 {Spoiler}Parker is still alive and Flash finds out he is SM
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 5, 2015 21:24:00 GMT -5
Civil War #2 {Spoiler}The issue opens with Tony Stark following the trail of the shooter and Tony is heading into The Blue using a drone to follow the trail. The drone is destroyed by Storm however and the trail ends there. From here we get a scene with Colossus and Storm and they send Tony a message via this drone. The message is about sending a Hulk next...which sparks something for Tony and this investigation.
We then find Cap and Spidey discussing a new weapon. Beast uses it on Sandman and his powers are taken from him.
We then get a handful of scenes with Tony and She Hulk, some of them both post coitus, as they seem to be come upon who the perpetrator might be. He asks She Hulk to go into the Blue without her powers activated to follow the trail.
Meanwhile Spider-Man headways a team to infiltrate into the Iron. He's got Elektra, Venom and the new Black Panther with him. They are quickly attacked by Sentinel Iron Man robots and Elektra is vaporized.
The final scene is with She Hulk as she infiltrates the Blue. Xavier is brought in for an extra check to see who she is. To be continued!
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 6, 2015 3:41:38 GMT -5
So in Spider-island #2 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Parker is still alive and Flash finds out he is SM And in the Spider-Girl back-up {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}We learn who is controlling the minds of the MC2 heroes and she uses her abilities to convince Mayday that J2 is Daemos, her father's murderer Also, in the Spider-Man newspaper strip, the Hobgoblin arc is slowly being resolved {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Turns out Harry's psychiatrist is a murderous rouge spy that Black Widow had been tailing. He found out she was in town on his trail and made use of Harry's Goblin history, using hyponosis to turn him into the Hobgoblin and forge him into a weapon to use against Widow. He sent Harry to kill MJ as well to better hide his hand. Harry's attempts to kill Peter were an added bonus for him because of Harry's existing grudge against Spider-Man for his part in Norman's death (the strip's one of the few canons left that has never resurrected Norman)
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 6, 2015 7:51:56 GMT -5
Marvel are picking up a lot of flack regarding the new Hercules series and Axel Alonso making it clear that 616 Herc is straight, despite his previous series making him bi. as well as they should be. bisexual erasure is a huge peeve of mine. especially when you're trying to retcon something that was so blatant.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 8:40:57 GMT -5
The only bad part of this week's Nailbiter is that the next issue isn't out until October. Holy crap, what an issue!
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 7, 2015 8:49:30 GMT -5
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 7, 2015 11:00:20 GMT -5
The top ten books of July 2015
SECRET WARS #4 STAR WARS: LANDO #1 CIVIL WAR #1 STAR WARS #7 BATMAN #42 DARTH VADER #7 ARCHIE #1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #2 AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 GUARDIANS OF KNOWHERE #1
Gotta feel badly for DC in the wake of the DCYou initiative...only one book cracks the top ten.
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Post by Jeff Mangum PI on Aug 8, 2015 23:54:43 GMT -5
So i'm on wikipedia checking out some some entries about comics when I manage to stumble onto Jack Kirby's New Gods. And Oh. My. God.
This sounds like a sci-fi mashup of greek mythology and Lord of the Rings. It's batshit insane, it's something that demands to be made into a Wachoskis movie. I just wanna devour everything related this but I can all do for now is just shell $40 for the Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 on Amazon.
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Post by sternrogers01 on Aug 9, 2015 11:24:59 GMT -5
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 9, 2015 20:33:07 GMT -5
So i'm on wikipedia checking out some some entries about comics when I manage to stumble onto Jack Kirby's New Gods. And Oh. My. God. This sounds like a sci-fi mashup of greek mythology and Lord of the Rings. It's batshit insane, it's something that demands to be made into a Wachoskis movie. I just wanna devour everything related this but I can all do for now is just shell $40 for the Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 on Amazon. Funniest part of this .... Kirby killed Thor in the New Gods. They find his winged helmet in the ruins of the old gods at one point
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Post by Joe Neglia on Aug 10, 2015 0:41:25 GMT -5
So i'm on wikipedia checking out some some entries about comics when I manage to stumble onto Jack Kirby's New Gods. And Oh. My. God. This sounds like a sci-fi mashup of greek mythology and Lord of the Rings. It's batshit insane, it's something that demands to be made into a Wachoskis movie. I just wanna devour everything related this but I can all do for now is just shell $40 for the Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 on Amazon. Funniest part of this .... Kirby killed Thor in the New Gods. They find his winged helmet in the ruins of the old gods at one point Believe it or not, that's actually because Kirby originally planned for the New Gods concept to debut in his Thor book in the late 1960s. goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/11/08/comic-book-legends-revealed-444/
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