Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 25, 2024 19:03:04 GMT -5
Sooo I went home opened my copy of X Men one and the last page is the last page, the QR leads to a stinger page so it is a complete issue and even Tom said the thing. answering a question about the above QR code, he explained the strategy. “It was a bonus page to begin with, an extra page—we didn’t scale back the contents of X-MEN #1 in order to do it,” Brevoort wrote. “And it gave us a page whose contents we could conceal until the day of release, thus avoiding any early spoilers. You’ll find that we’re doing similar pages in most of the new X-launches. They’re a little free bonus, a little extra—sort of a modern day equivalent of that ‘Things To Come’ page that ran in the first issue of the Claremont/Lee X-MEN #1.” So maybe we should have read more than the head line..... Hard for me to bbother with issues from the big two now. I rather wait grab a tpb or hardcover. Like the Bruce Campbell written SGT Rock mini. For 3 bucks more than I would have paid to get each issue I got a great Hardcover.
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Post by thechase on Jul 26, 2024 3:42:51 GMT -5
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Post by thechase on Jul 26, 2024 10:05:47 GMT -5
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 26, 2024 10:22:03 GMT -5
Sooo I went home opened my copy of X Men one and the last page is the last page, the QR leads to a stinger page so it is a complete issue and even Tom said the thing. answering a question about the above QR code, he explained the strategy. “It was a bonus page to begin with, an extra page—we didn’t scale back the contents of X-MEN #1 in order to do it,” Brevoort wrote. “And it gave us a page whose contents we could conceal until the day of release, thus avoiding any early spoilers. You’ll find that we’re doing similar pages in most of the new X-launches. They’re a little free bonus, a little extra—sort of a modern day equivalent of that ‘Things To Come’ page that ran in the first issue of the Claremont/Lee X-MEN #1.” So maybe we should have read more than the head line..... Hard for me to bbother with issues from the big two now. I rather wait grab a tpb or hardcover. Like the Bruce Campbell written SGT Rock mini. For 3 bucks more than I would have paid to get each issue I got a great Hardcover. I've read that there's content in the Phoenix issue that makes more sense in the stinger QR page. (And the funny think about the Claremont/Lee X-Men #1 comparison is... people actually got that *in the comic book*, so Brevoort saying "these QR codes are just like that" is a swing-and-a-miss.) If Marvel has the page, the space, and the ink for a full splash page QR code with actual story content, then Marvel has the page, the space, and the ink to print the stinger story content in the actual comic book. Had the QR code been legitimately "bonus" content like a page of sketches or a storyboard of a specific page from the issue just read, or whatever, nobody would have complained about this.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 26, 2024 10:40:30 GMT -5
So maybe we should have read more than the head line..... Hard for me to bbother with issues from the big two now. I rather wait grab a tpb or hardcover. Like the Bruce Campbell written SGT Rock mini. For 3 bucks more than I would have paid to get each issue I got a great Hardcover. I've read that there's content in the Phoenix issue that makes more sense in the stinger QR page. (And the funny think about the Claremont/Lee X-Men #1 comparison is... people actually got that *in the comic book*, so Brevoort saying "these QR codes are just like that" is a swing-and-a-miss.) If Marvel has the page, the space, and the ink for a full splash page QR code with actual story content, then Marvel has the page, the space, and the ink to print the stinger story content in the actual comic book. Had the QR code been legitimately "bonus" content like a page of sketches or a storyboard of a specific page from the issue just read, or whatever, nobody would have complained about this. It's also not going to do anything against spoilers. And in like 3 years those pages are going to be 404'd so you have a useless page in your comic.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jul 26, 2024 17:07:40 GMT -5
That's just Man of Steel Superman. Which is just Injustice Superman but in slow motion. Again.
The Absolute line is just a way to lure big name creators and trick them into writing main universe comics.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 26, 2024 17:16:34 GMT -5
Yeah, Absolute looks like they had a great concept and just completely blew it. Maybe the books will be good but I'm not seeing a lot of reason to be curious enough to check if they are.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jul 26, 2024 17:32:41 GMT -5
Yeah, Absolute looks like they had a great concept and just completely blew it. Maybe the books will be good but I'm not seeing a lot of reason to be curious enough to check if they are. Also, he's just blatantly American Goku. I just can't do any more of this "But what if Superman... he actually sad and maybe bad?"
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 26, 2024 18:40:37 GMT -5
I don't want to like that description of Absolute Superman, but they got me at "sexy Superman." That's how I like my Superman, haha
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 26, 2024 19:43:11 GMT -5
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 26, 2024 20:15:15 GMT -5
Yeah, Absolute looks like they had a great concept and just completely blew it. Maybe the books will be good but I'm not seeing a lot of reason to be curious enough to check if they are. the only one I have even the remotest interest in still is Wonder Woman. But alot of this feels like the New 52 again... Also... 2005 The OLD DC Bullet was outdated and nto cinematic enough for our new multimedia strategy... 2024 Here's are all new logo!
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 29, 2024 17:02:31 GMT -5
Got in and read Hate Revisited #2 today.
get to see how Buddy met Stinky. Buddy tells his wife what happened ot Stinky. And their kid Harold has a new friend named Spam.
Peter Bagge needs to be given every award for this series. Or maybe I am just a huge Bagge fanboy.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 29, 2024 17:28:20 GMT -5
Finished the published and translated volumes of Berserk, and experienced a deep sense of sadness that I may never read something that good again, and that the author perished before finishing his story.
Read Batman: City Of Bane Part 1 right afterwards and was very disappointed. I'm wondering what everyone else sees in Tom King's writing, because I thought both this book and Mister Miracle were ass.
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 29, 2024 17:54:17 GMT -5
Finished the published and translated volumes of Berserk, and experienced a deep sense of sadness that I may never read something that good again, and that the author perished before finishing his story. I need to start that. Got a big hardcover of I think first 3 or 5 volumes. Was one of the many she found it cheapish and said "Gallos you need to read this". Then fussed when it sits on my HUGE to read pile cause I got too much to read.
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 29, 2024 21:26:38 GMT -5
Get a 12 page Walt Simonson drawn lead story. Then a 7 page back up drawn by Jim Starlin. Worth the buck or two I paid.
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 30, 2024 13:19:34 GMT -5
So been on a Jae Lee kick. Read from 94 vol 1 of Hellshock,4 issues total. Loved it heard he did a revamped version ,vol 2,years later. And the only way to get it complete is a TPB or hardcover. Seems around the time Jae was working on that Inhumans mini series with Paul Jenkins ,Paul talked him into going back and redoing Hellshock.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 30, 2024 17:36:37 GMT -5
So Dark Reign 2? A villain gets rid of the aliens/vampires and now he’s in charge? But now with MCU synergy? Cool.
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Post by thechase on Jul 31, 2024 5:10:58 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man letters pages reveals from Nick Lowe that... {Spoiler}This issue and the next (ASM#55) were originally going to be Zeb's last issues. For those who thought he was going to 'fix' Peter/MJ and ultimately get rid of Paul and Jackpot, that wasn't on the cards. Zeb's end game was always going to be purging the Goblin from Norman, seemingly permanently or certainly for the long-term. That's why the issue ends with 'THE END', it was supposed to be the conclusion and #55 the epilogue that puts Peter in presumably a happier place
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 31, 2024 8:44:15 GMT -5
So Dark Reign 2? A villain gets rid of the aliens/vampires and now he’s in charge? But now with MCU synergy? Cool. Ill play devils advocate here, at least giving Doctor Doom that level of authority is somewhat plausible. The problem with Dark Reign was that it made absolutely zero sense to give convicted serial killer Norman Osborn that level of authority at all. It was too much of a leap to assume everyone simy forgot what he was, and later attempts to handwave it as "that wasn't me it was an impostor the whole time" also fell flat.
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Post by thechase on Aug 1, 2024 1:37:29 GMT -5
Shadow of the Green Goblin#4 was a bit anti-climatic, but I suppose when you have to follow canon guidelines it couldn't be anything too sensational, the ending is a wonderful 'up yours' to editorial though {Spoiler}So basically Emily Osborn connects with Harry, who she had abducted and brought to her, and they have a nice heart to heart, then Norman shows up at the lodge and threatens to kill Emily, but then has a change of mind and tells her to leave. Emily asks Harry to come with her, and for some reason, Harry turns on Emily and sides with his dad. Emily leaves. Norman then sprays Harry with something that will give him amnesia(?!).
Peter and ProtoGoblin fight, but Protogoblin begins to come apart, he demands Emily give him the antidote but Emily confesses she made the whole thing about the antidote up. Protogoblin melts into a big glob and ends up being collected up by people in hazmat suits, and that's all we get from that. Emily flees in her car after briefly meeting Spider-Man.
The last few pages sees us witness the on-panel death of Gwen Stacy's mom, and Harry and Norman comfort Gwen and George at their home, Peter and Aunt May meanwhile begin to heal from Uncle Ben's death, and it's revealed the Peter narrating the series the whole time is from the future, who's a married man and a father. The story stops short, however, of identifying who the mother or even the child is
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