ViewtifulJC
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Funny enough, this describes the vast majority of Jeph Loeb comics!
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Funny enough, this describes the vast majority of Jeph Loeb comics!
bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
All this talk about Uncanny X-Force is making me interested.
Any recommendations for a starting point in the main series? (Preferably TPBs)
Any recommendations for a starting point in the main series? (Preferably TPBs)
WascallyWabbit
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i'm sure there's a trade of the new series, just look for an uncanny x-force trade that has rick remender's name on it
edit: the series is only on issue 18(?) so you can catch up on the entire run so far
Father_Brain
Banned
It's what I expected, pretty much: nothing offensively bad in the script, but still written in the "what would a 12-year-old boy find 'cool'" mode of all of Loeb's work from the last few years. Nice art, also. (I think it kinda ignored the specific manner of Cable's death in Second Coming, though.)
Auron_Kale
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Incidentally, the Hardcover of the trade is cheaper than the paperback.
When I ordered all three of the current trades (newest vol. covers up to issue #16), the newest vol. just released last week.
Total was about $43 and change for all three books in hardcover.
Infinite Justice
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NihonTiger90
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Here is the plan:
Study and take breaks to read a page or two of Batwoman. Use it as a motivational tool. Everyone wins!
Unless you fail your finals, then I will feel awful for suggesting this. D:
Infinite Justice
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Will the poster be able to just "do a page or two" though.
WascallyWabbit
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how are the wildstorm references in the title of the book? I feel like an idiot for asking, i totally missed the stormwatch ties in the first few issues
UXF Deadpool is best Deadpool.
NihonTiger90
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fredrancour
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This week's issue was titled "Merlin watches the storm."
WascallyWabbit
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oh. haha
Absolutely. Really enjoyed this arc. Though my favorite scene from the series is still Deadpool feeding Angel
his flesh
Anybody picked up Carnage USA? Thought the mini-series was kind of lackluster.
Spike Spiegel
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True story: So I've just left work and am on my way into Lafayette to hit the comic shop and pick up the new releases. I'm going over the things I'm supposed to buy in my head and thinking about how f*ck-awesome the Uncanny X-Force issue is going to be; I mean, it's polybagged and everything, how could it not be f*ck-awesome? So then I start thinking about how f*ck-awesome ALL of the X-books are right now, with Remender and Aaron, and Gillen and Liu, and Asmus and Wood, and Pak and David. Then, as I start thinking about WatXM and how much I'm looking forward to the next issue, that blacked out page from an upcoming issue -- the one posted in this thread -- pops into my head, and then it hits me like a bolt of lightning...
...what if
And then I'm in the car with my swag and the first thing I do is tear into my copy of UXF to see what happens. And BAM.
Isn't that just the craziest thing? :O
...what if
the blackouts are covering up that Kid Apocalypse from Uncanny X-Force? Like maybe Fantomex gets found out and they free him, and Wolverine integrates him into the school so they can all keep a close watch on him and everything?
And then I'm in the car with my swag and the first thing I do is tear into my copy of UXF to see what happens. And BAM.
Isn't that just the craziest thing? :O
BlueScrote
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ViewtifulJC
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Remender and Aaron DID say there would be some crossover with their books, and that WATXM #4 spoils a bit of UXF #18. Plus, this just seems like a logical next step for Genesis. Kid aint fit for X-Force, but he can learn about being a mutant at Jean Grey's School. I expect we'll get a lot of fall-out/epilogue in the next issue.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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ive been frantically running around my apartment trying to find all the x-force back issues so i can re read the first 18 in one go
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
When are Hal and Sinestro going to get married? They seem perfect for each other.
Spike Spiegel
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They already did. It was called 'Age of Apocalypse'. People still talk about it.
NihonTiger90
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As soon as DC needs another spike in sales.
AoA was the poorman's House of M, c'mon you know this.
I did it last week....SO GOOD.
Spike Spiegel
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But of course. EVERYTHING in comics is just a poor man's version of something Bendis has written, is writing, or will someday write. >;D
Bendis is a causality loop. One day he will go back in time and father Kirby, Lee, and Kane.
Spike Spiegel
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No big deal -- it's maybe a 15-minute break reading it anyway.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I might regret doing this, but I saw a few things here I figured I'd clear up for the folks who enjoyed the story.
Warren did die. His mind is 100% gone, he's dead.
What/who was that at the end?
-Remender comments at CBR
Warren did die. His mind is 100% gone, he's dead.
What/who was that at the end?
-Remender comments at CBR
BlueScrote
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Yeah, I don't see reading a single comic as a huge distraction from studying. Hell when I was in school I would sidetracked from studying for finals for multiple hours on the dumbest things.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
crap, I shouldn't have come in here
DonasaurusRex
Online Ho Champ
This is not the fight, time is broken.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Bendis ignores continuity, even in real life
He is the Tebow of comics, he does things by all rights that should net a loss. But he always posts the W.
DonasaurusRex
Online Ho Champ
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Avengers x Sanction was chill, like a little kid playing with his toys. And Avengers Academy is getting crazy brahs.
Gave myself a small reward for acing some of my finals and got my comics.
Batwoman #4 was absolutely beautiful, as always.
Avengers Academy - Please don't cancel this please don't cancel this. Anyways, I still have to catch up since I was reading it in trades until I heard that the sales were pretty bad.
Also picked up I think last week's Wolverine and the X-Men #2, and I'm still not digging the new Hellfire Club as teenage villains. Seeing Bobby actually doing shit and not being on the bench was a nice change. This is also the first time I'm reading X-Men since Joss Whedon's Astonishing run, so I'm just kind of going with the flow for now...
Batwoman #4 was absolutely beautiful, as always.
I'm so glad Bette didn't die, although now that Chase knows Kate's identity, shit is going down. Super excited!
Avengers Academy - Please don't cancel this please don't cancel this. Anyways, I still have to catch up since I was reading it in trades until I heard that the sales were pretty bad.
I'm going to assume this is not the first time we find out that Reptil is actually his future self joyriding in his younger body? Damn... pretty ominous. I don't want anyone to die. Especially not Hazmat. 
Anyways, I liked the coming out scene with Striker and Julie Power. We don't normally see bisexual characters in superhero comics either, so that's pretty nice.
Anyways, I liked the coming out scene with Striker and Julie Power. We don't normally see bisexual characters in superhero comics either, so that's pretty nice.Also picked up I think last week's Wolverine and the X-Men #2, and I'm still not digging the new Hellfire Club as teenage villains. Seeing Bobby actually doing shit and not being on the bench was a nice change. This is also the first time I'm reading X-Men since Joss Whedon's Astonishing run, so I'm just kind of going with the flow for now...
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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That's even nerdier than the "Magneto Was Right" shirt I have
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Oh I have that one.
Not what I was thinking of.
For 100, here's your clue: This race of aliens from the Wildstorm Universe has recently been featured in Grifter, and counts among its ranks one "Voodoo".
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