IrishNinja
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he can sell the BPRD ones to IrishNinja at a great discount and make a friend~
COMICS! August l OT l So what's new with comics?
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he can sell the BPRD ones to IrishNinja at a great discount and make a friend~
BenjaminBirdie
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don't like bprd lolllll
Escape Goat
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Why does Action Comics Superman look like a tool and then has his big boy suit in Justice League?
He switches between the two in Action. The book doesn't say why. Far as I can tell, it's t-shirt and jeans when doing "smaller" superheroics like rescuing people from fires, and armored suit when hanging with the JL or fighting a villain.
slightconfuse
Banned
Yep ultimates 1-12 is pretty great, how is ultimate x-men i am curious
If Spike is right about the O5 being here to stay, shouldn't the redundants cease to exist? I mean if they no longer exist in the time between when they leapt forward and the present, then how would the present versions still exist?
bodyboarder
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Pretty much. Seems like a cash grab.
I liked Ultimates a lot and disliked Ult X-Men. I thought Ult X-Men was very slow and uninteresting, it took a step up when Brian Wood took over at issue 13, but the pacing is still really slow and i dropped it after issue 14.
slightconfuse
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huh i really enjoyed ultimate x(first modern loeb comic i liked). might dive in for 99 cents anyway
Automatisch
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Picked up my Scott Pilgrim upgrade and all of the Ult stuff. Been a long time since I read Ultimate anything. I was really into it for the first 2-3 years but I got really tired of how some characters were being written, and by the time Ultimatum came out I heard so much negative stuff that I never went back. For $18 I'm willing to take a look and see where they're at now that it's been re-launched, but I'm just hoping X-Men turns out better than it seems it will.
You are correct. The big events happen in Knightfall.
slightconfuse
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read spider-men 4 today. i think BEndi might pull this x-men thing off.
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Deleted member 13876
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I liked his run on Ultimate X-Men, but the premise of the original five dancing around the current Marvel U still fees damn iffy.
slightconfuse
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i as skeptical as anyone but spider-men 4 bendis pulled a great story off between 6`6 pete and ulti spidy family . granted i have not read 1-3 but the buzz around 4 is well deserved.
TheKaeptain
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What DC comics are out today?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
I'm just ultra cynical of Bendis using 616 Pete to actually give closure to the terrible place he left the Ultimate cast with, alongside trying to big up the totally boring Miles. Bleh. Its all just reaction to old stuff, I think Bendis may have forgotten how to tell new stories rather than just pages and pages of reflection. Which is what that X-Men thing will be, sobbing tears and teenage slang through a panel by panel "fucked up mutant history" lesson.
Spider family titles Venom and Scarlet were ace this week though. Oh and speaking of Scarlet, Stegman on Fantastic Four made me want him to either stick around for a long time (the threat of Larroca doesnt inspire happy) or work on another one of my big reads. Absolutely love his work.
Spider family titles Venom and Scarlet were ace this week though. Oh and speaking of Scarlet, Stegman on Fantastic Four made me want him to either stick around for a long time (the threat of Larroca doesnt inspire happy) or work on another one of my big reads. Absolutely love his work.
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Venom was great. Wrapped up everything nicely and hammered home the key themes of the book. Wonder how it'll continue from this point on.
-Pyromaniac-
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Spider-Men 4 was good. The build up to this good stuff was slow though, but it had almost everything I wanted to see.
Glad Peter didn't tell Gwen she was dead. Obviously still waiting on inevitable MJ meeting.
Hey guys! Need some quick suggestions, it's my birthday and I want to go buy some comics with my cash dollars. I'm already going to pick up Invincible 16 but I'd like some more suggestions for single story collections. I am into superhero comics but I'm open to anything as long as it's quality!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Vimanarama is the best comic ever, and that's a single contained story (I think that's what you mean, right?)
Exactly, I'm looking for contained stuff. Invincible is really the only comic I'm keeping up with.
Got you covered!
Nextwave Agents of Hate Ultimate Collection, one trade collecting the whole 12 issue story by Warren Ellis about fun over the top funaction.
Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, and if you like that, there is one more stand-alone trade named "Dallas", but you can read and enjoy Apocalypse Suite by itself
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Sick recs, but Umbrella is definitely an ongoing series.
American Vampire
Edit: When you say contained do you mean finite or that there is no interaction with other books?
can a series be ongoing if there is no going?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
A) There's a second volume
B) Ba's working on the next series now that he's done with Casanova
He explicitly asked for self-contained stories. Trust me, if I could I'd recommend a billion other things, but I'm respecting the dude's requirements.
fredrancour
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Wikipedia tells me that this Umbrella book is by the lead singer of my chemical romance and my skepticism is damn near unbounded because of it. Is that actually a good comic?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
He's second only to Grant Morrison when it comes to imaginative superhero fiction.
I was as surprised as you are.
powersurge
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I know I want to drop Detective Comics its not very good but I keep telling myself it will get better! The saving grace is the backup stories have been pretty good and I really loved the one in issue #12 teasing
the joker coming back
Unrelated to Batman is anyone else a bit hyped to see what IDW does with Judge Dredd in November? I love the character but I've never bought any ongoing just a trade here and there.
WascallyWabbit
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Way has a very Morrison-ian voice for sure, except not as crazy. Which is a good thing lol
Palette Swap
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Thanks to that Ultimate sale, I've finally bought my first Comixology comics and I think I'm fucked.
It really looks like the worst of both worlds between Steam sales and comic binges.
Fuck.
It really looks like the worst of both worlds between Steam sales and comic binges.
Fuck.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
He's....pretty crazy.
fair enough, though i do think a story can have a second volume yet be rather self contained if not 100% " there will never be any more , EVER!", but that might just be how i feel and interpret things and it doesn't translate to others' definitions, but you are right.
I'll throw out another recommendation before running away:
All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. One of the few Superman stories i've ever liked, mainly because i don't think writers pull off Superman doing common things since he's so powerful. All Star Superman, Secret Identity, and some of Johns' Action Comics, that's all the Superman i've ever really enjoyed, and All Star Superman because of just how large a vision it is all in twelve issues, collected in one paperback volume.
Palette Swap
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Isn't he like super friends with him too? With Morrison appearing in music videos and whatnot.
21st century cowboy
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Has anyone been able to pick up the Evil Ex version of the Scott Pilgrim?
WascallyWabbit
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Agreed, but Morrison is on a totally different level
See: The Filth and Invisibles
Spike Spiegel
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Adult Cyclops is probably going to be either dead, a prisoner, or a fugitive, so young Cyclops probably has a lot on his plate from that alone. Adult Hank and young Hank can be science buddies coming up with all kinds of crazy lab sh*t that threatens to burn the school down. Young Bobby is super disappointed in his older self, so there's bound to be some shenanigans there in which young Bobby torments himself. And I can see snobby richboy young Warren freaking out a little about his adult version's "tabula rasa" born-again Christian older self. And that's just interacting with themselves, and not their older selves' friends/lovers/families/enemies/etc. There's lots to explore there I think.
Divergent timelines, man! Alternate earths! When these Original Five leapt forward in time, it created two timelines: one in which the Original Five disappeared and were never seen again, and the current timeline in which both past and present selves exist within the same time. TIME SCIENCE!
...I'm just spitballing.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Lets see if Batman 12 is worth the $3.99 I paid for it...man I need to wait an buy new issues after a few weeks when they drop a buck or two.
godofcookery
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ah well that explains it. I should have guessed i suppose.
So any good recommendations for a standalone iron man story i could read?
i have read armor wars 1 and 2. and a huge run of stuff when i was younger, but quit reading when tony was killed and teenage tony was brought back from the past or something.
Extra Sauce
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I just cut down my 37 titles to 20 titles, with the intent of (very) slowly transitioning over to digital. Basically I won't add any more books to my pull-list, so however long it takes for the current runs I am collecting physically to all end is how long it will take until I'm 100% digital.
Join the revolution indeed.
Join the revolution indeed.
Colonel Nasty
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Did anybody else pick up Deadpool kills today? I thought the way he got Thor was pretty good.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
What about Marvel including digital codes with their 3.99 books, will you still buy them in print?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
500.1 is an amazing stand alone issue. Absolutely brilliant.
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