ronin705
Dennis Stamp
All Might
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Post by ronin705 on Jan 28, 2022 5:59:55 GMT -5
I thought we were done sjitting on Cyclops, then... {Spoiler} Captain Krakoa Happens lol. Poor guy, Marvel has a real cook story bubbling, but hell of it isn't time to finally crank the heat. With Moira exposed, that should be a real splinter on the inside, while the Avengers should be banging on the doors at this point. It's kinda stalled a lil
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Post by thechase on Jan 28, 2022 11:45:25 GMT -5
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 28, 2022 16:22:04 GMT -5
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 28, 2022 17:44:35 GMT -5
No more event stories, just for one year?
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 28, 2022 22:36:27 GMT -5
No more event stories, just for one year? that reminds me of them talking about how after Secret Wars there wasn't going to be any more event stories for a while... then the next day announced like 3 more...
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 28, 2022 23:20:15 GMT -5
No more event stories, just for one year? that reminds me of them talking about how after Secret Wars there wasn't going to be any more event stories for a while... then the next day announced like 3 more... Seriously, just one year from Marvel and/or DC without a cataclysmic event story and just have smaller scale tales.
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Post by peaches1 on Jan 30, 2022 13:20:35 GMT -5
The current Eternals series has been pretty good even if it does take huge liberties with the established canon.
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 30, 2022 23:54:34 GMT -5
Read Batman89 issue 1 earlier. Really enjoyed it.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jan 31, 2022 15:29:56 GMT -5
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Post by thechase on Feb 1, 2022 16:03:10 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 1, 2022 16:06:56 GMT -5
So, as a sucker for Multiverse books, I've been reading Justice League Incarnite and today's issue begins to set things up going into April and I think it's pretty neat. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The basic jist is that every Crisis, besides one, has had an influence by a Swamp Thing character called The Great Darkness, a character who made a truce with Swamp Thing to balance light and dark in the DC Multiverse. So across the post Crisis landscape, that bargain basically lead him to people like Superboy Prime, Magog in Kingdom Come etc.
Because of what happened in Infinite Crisis, TGD considered that truce null and void and set off a chain of events that would basically destroy the Multiverse. The Crisis that didn't have his influence was Final Crisis because Darkseid himself was aware of what was going on and tried to lure TGD into a trap by causing a further event. He, obviously, failed.
The whole series has been about the JLI trying to stop the tear in reality that if opened would let TGD in with Darkseid wanting to control the tear so he would control it. But trying to fight the armies on Earth 7 (Gentry and Empty Hand, who were in The Multiversity), he basically failed and gave them what they needed.
Oh, and Thomas Wayne Batman dies when he gets possessed by TGD and Darkseid shoots him with Omega Beams, but he'll probably be fine by the time the Flashpoint event kicks off so it wasn't as important.
TL:DR The Great Darkness wants to destroy everything, The JLI don't really want that to happen but the odds are stacked against them going into the final issue.
And considering whose writing this series and whose writing The Death of the Justice League...think you can see where this is going.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Feb 1, 2022 18:24:13 GMT -5
I'm calling it right about Judgement Day, with the Eternals not doing as well as most other Marvel movies the ending has been changed to the X-Men whooping their ass
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Post by thechase on Feb 2, 2022 13:47:20 GMT -5
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 3, 2022 13:54:26 GMT -5
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Post by thechase on Feb 3, 2022 14:21:35 GMT -5
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Post by uewfigfed on Feb 3, 2022 15:10:14 GMT -5
I'm calling it right about Judgement Day, with the Eternals not doing as well as most other Marvel movies the ending has been changed to the X-Men whooping their ass And I'm so ready for this, Krakoa forever.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 3, 2022 15:26:34 GMT -5
I do like Arashem frozen in the background of the publicity shot
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Post by thechase on Feb 3, 2022 15:26:39 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 4, 2022 1:49:53 GMT -5
Right, for some reason Comixology only let me know Crossover #11 was out today instead of Tuesday so I just finished reading it. {Spoiler}{Spoiler} As we found out last issue, Donny Cates is locked in a cell and has been for the past 5 years. The big reason for that being he was seen coming out of the bubble and stopped a rampaging beast from coming out and wiping out the army that was assembled outside by screaming.
When he came out, he had an outline for a story called “Crossover” with him, one that he and Geoff Shaw were supposed to do after the big Marvel works but never quite started. Geoff hadn’t been himself for a while, as Shaw says it and after another incident where it implies his girlfriend might have been caught in an explosion with Shaw…we don’t find out what happened since he was cut off and now assigned to come up with an “ending” to this story. After speaking to Ellie in the present, he leaves her a note saying that it is her who is the key to this ending.
In the meantime, Ryan’s father, someone who seems to know whose been killing comic book creators, takes the Powers team to a baseball field where the issue ends with them being confronted by…The Walking Dead’s Negan.
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Post by thechase on Feb 4, 2022 14:03:26 GMT -5
Steven Wacker, who co-ordinated the Brand New Day and early Slott eras of ASM amongst supervising other major Marvel titles throughout the 2010s that included Fraction's Hawkeye and the relaunch of Captain Marvel udner Kelly Sue DeConnik, has left the company after fifteen years comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-editor-steven-wacker-leaves/I have no love for the guy, but I'd credit him largely with being the reason Slott was even tolerable as a writer back then.
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