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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 6, 2024 10:41:04 GMT -5
On a lark I picked up the first volume of Jeremy Adams' run on Green Lantern because I LOVED his run on The Flash. It mostly looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. Hopefully he doesn't get taken off this one early. That said I kinda just wish Hal and Carol would just be a couple for real and get over it already. They're basically the Ross and Rachel of DC comics at this point.
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Post by thechase on Sept 8, 2024 0:44:04 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 8, 2024 1:51:57 GMT -5
Anyone got any suggestions for X-Men runs worth reading?
I finished Krakoa and Fall of X recently, and so decided to give a read to stories/past runs I hadn't read before (I had a gap where I lost interest in comics from around the time of Secret War up until Krakoa. For X-Men, the last series/story arc I remember reading back then was the Mutant Messiah with Rachel)
I have read some of them--Wolverine and the X-Men (the one with the new Hellfire club led by Killfore), the continuation from Whedon's "Astonishing X-Men". Spider-Man and the X-Men (brilliant)
Any other runs/story arcs worth checking out?
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Post by thechase on Sept 8, 2024 6:15:42 GMT -5
Have you read the event Zero Tolerance? If you've watched X-Men 97 it might be nice to catch up on what inspired some of that season's storylines.
I don't know who wrote out in the 1990s though...I finally started paying attention to writer/art credits when JMS and Grant Morrison took over Spidey and X-Men
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 8, 2024 6:21:40 GMT -5
Have you read the event Zero Tolerance? If you've watched X-Men 97 it might be nice to catch up on what inspired some of that season's storylines. I don't know who wrote out in the 1990s though...I finally started paying attention to writer/art credits when JMS and Grant Morrison took over Spidey and X-Men I haven't. Good suggestion, cheers.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 8, 2024 11:59:18 GMT -5
Have you read the event Zero Tolerance? If you've watched X-Men 97 it might be nice to catch up on what inspired some of that season's storylines. I don't know who wrote out in the 1990s though...I finally started paying attention to writer/art credits when JMS and Grant Morrison took over Spidey and X-Men Early to mid 90s Xmen aint great. Got JIm lee attempting to write,then Scott Jobdell and KayFabian Nieza. For X-men I stick to issue 94 thru about 225 of Uncanny. New Mutants vol 1 is good until around the time of the Fall of the Mutants cross over X-factor...... Yea it was never great. But it is another I stopped reading around Fall of the Mutants. Really the one X-title I thought saved very consistant was Excalibur vol 1.
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Post by thechase on Sept 9, 2024 7:34:31 GMT -5
Have you read the event Zero Tolerance? If you've watched X-Men 97 it might be nice to catch up on what inspired some of that season's storylines. I don't know who wrote out in the 1990s though...I finally started paying attention to writer/art credits when JMS and Grant Morrison took over Spidey and X-Men Early to mid 90s Xmen aint great. Got JIm lee attempting to write,then Scott Jobdell and KayFabian Nieza. For X-men I stick to issue 94 thru about 225 of Uncanny. New Mutants vol 1 is good until around the time of the Fall of the Mutants cross over X-factor...... Yea it was never great. But it is another I stopped reading around Fall of the Mutants. Really the one X-title I thought saved very consistant was Excalibur vol 1. Generally, while I like Morrison's New X-Men, I kind of look to what came just before it as the end of the franchise. Colossus going out as a hero finally curing the virus that (briefly) took his sister. I was curious about Claremont's The End series, I think I just got intimidated by it's sheer volume of length and Brevoort said they only did that to keep Claremont far away from the core books I bought as much of X-Men Forever as I could before it folded. That was around the same time Marvel were retelling the Clone Saga only speed running it through six issues and giving it one of Spidey's happiest endings. Both that and X-Men Forever have been largely forgotten about now, which is a pity because they weren't bad alternate universes at all, but nobody had the stomach for old school writers at the time, compared to now where Marvel continually pump out really good books by classic writers who prove they can still do it.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 9, 2024 8:53:54 GMT -5
See the only reason I stuck with Uncanny for as long as I did was I had a sub that some aunt got me.
Last issue I got was 300 or 301 and by then that title had went from something I read as soon as it got in,into a book that sometimes I would let 3 or 4 issues pile up before forcing myself to read it.
A big part of it is by 90 I was hitting the comic shop every week. Which meant I had access to all the indie comics that I couldn't just get a mail sub to.
Ok so to show how out of touch I am just saw that comics with Dave Steven's covers are starting to really go up in value.
Good deal,I got piles of them. For years unless it was Rocketeer all that other Dave work was in the dollar bins. I know I got at least 9 copies of the Valkyrie cover he did for Airboy at Eclipse.
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Post by thechase on Sept 9, 2024 11:00:15 GMT -5
The Archie Sonic Online team have released a dub of their first issue
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 9, 2024 23:27:55 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 10, 2024 0:58:11 GMT -5
I had a reread of Astonishing X-Men not long ago. His art in that comic was awesome. Some of my favorite comic art. I am surprised Marvel didn't have him on more major projects to be honest. I don't think he did anything for them post-Astonishing.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Sept 10, 2024 2:18:51 GMT -5
I had a reread of Astonishing X-Men not long ago. His art in that comic was awesome. Some of my favorite comic art. I am surprised Marvel didn't have him on more major projects to be honest. I don't think he did anything for them post-Astonishing. He did Uncanny Avengers and Star Wars too
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Post by thechase on Sept 10, 2024 6:15:00 GMT -5
Further DC Absolute Power fall out spoilers
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 10, 2024 6:26:03 GMT -5
As a lover of Planetary, this makes me very, very sad 😢 Also WTF DC? how many times are you going to blow up your multiverse only to walk it back 5 minutes later? Let it go.
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Post by thechase on Sept 10, 2024 7:18:43 GMT -5
As a lover of Planetary, this makes me very, very sad 😢 Also WTF DC? how many times are you going to blow up your multiverse only to walk it back 5 minutes later? Let it go. I don't think they're blowing it up, it's just noone can travel to every alternate world anymore and can only go between Earth Prime and Absolute.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 10, 2024 9:11:45 GMT -5
As a lover of Planetary, this makes me very, very sad 😢 Also WTF DC? how many times are you going to blow up your multiverse only to walk it back 5 minutes later? Let it go. I don't think they're blowing it up, it's just noone can travel to every alternate world anymore and can only go between Earth Prime and Absolute. Wow how interesting the only other world they can go to is "The DCU we have at home"
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 10, 2024 13:32:44 GMT -5
Ok so the delays on those last what 3 or 4 issues of Planetary.
Was it Ellis that was late,was it John that was late,or was it both?
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Post by thechase on Sept 11, 2024 0:00:22 GMT -5
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 11, 2024 7:05:44 GMT -5
Ok so the delays on those last what 3 or 4 issues of Planetary. Was it Ellis that was late,was it John that was late,or was it both? both. Ellis also delayed finishing it for years because a bunch of fans tactlessly bugged him about it when he was grieving his dead father.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 11, 2024 13:04:29 GMT -5
Ok so the delays on those last what 3 or 4 issues of Planetary. Was it Ellis that was late,was it John that was late,or was it both? both. Ellis also delayed finishing it for years because a bunch of fans tactlessly bugged him about it when he was grieving his dead father. I started reading it right after the final issue came out. Learned with Ellis best to wait till he finishes his run before buying it.
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