BenjaminBirdie
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I could see him ending up on one these "Legacy." level books, whatever they are. (The ones where it's a Spurrier instead of like a Hickman writing)
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I could see him ending up on one these "Legacy." level books, whatever they are. (The ones where it's a Spurrier instead of like a Hickman writing)
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Ryan Stegman is sooooo good, they immediately took him away from B-tier Spider-Man title after 5 issues. Surely he'll be on something cool come December.
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.
Scarlet Spider just gives me that 90's hit of comics I've missed.
Stegman on Uncanny X-Force, Avengers or Secret Avengers would probably please me. Just hopefully something I read. I definitely want Marvel to have far more longstanding duo's. I half feel like I stuck with Ultimate Spidey through thick and thin because it was this just single vision run, writing and art, until all the Loeb shit totally started filtering through to fuck everything.
After last months thread, I do wonder where Larroca is gonna fall now. Would quite like him to take a year off and cleanse himself of Greg Land'ing and remember how to draw awesome again. One More Sawyer Trace: last few years of his career didn't happen.
Stegman on Uncanny X-Force, Avengers or Secret Avengers would probably please me. Just hopefully something I read. I definitely want Marvel to have far more longstanding duo's. I half feel like I stuck with Ultimate Spidey through thick and thin because it was this just single vision run, writing and art, until all the Loeb shit totally started filtering through to fuck everything.
After last months thread, I do wonder where Larroca is gonna fall now. Would quite like him to take a year off and cleanse himself of Greg Land'ing and remember how to draw awesome again. One More Sawyer Trace: last few years of his career didn't happen.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
lol damn seriously
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.
We'll be making the switchover to actual RDJ (or his pornstar equivalent) soon, and endless Hot Toys Iron Man figure poses! Pepper Potts with eyes closed and tonsils waggling in readiness for something suspiciously off-panel, I just can't wait.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
slightconfuse
Banned
Stegman on FF was fantastic, he is in the Samnes zone of gettin tossed around.
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.
speech bubbles are dicks. You will never un-see.
Yours must look pretty strange.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I'm with you, brother.
Oh yeah!
I'm confused- I thought Scott Lang was dead, but the article says that his daughter was killed? What happened to the other Ant-Man in Secret Avengers, who got replaced by a robot double? Confusing!
Thought this was always intended to be a limited series due to low sales right from the start...
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Scott Lang came back in Avengers: Children Crusade
The robot is Eric O'Grady.
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.
If ever confused about comics and reappearing dead characters, defer to expert Vigo the Carpathian:
"Death is but a door, time is but a window: They'll be back."
"Death is but a door, time is but a window: They'll be back."
Banana Kid
Member
I am so disappointed to see Scott Lang back now. That means Eric is on the way out.
He's the best Ant-Man, goddammit.
He's the best Ant-Man, goddammit.
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.
Black Ant for Black Ops team alongside Black Widow if he gets a route to redemption and dat black symbiote?
ThatObviousUser
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It's a nice little sidestory with a sort of bare minimum of Batman.
He is working on The Joker story arc now that will be out in a couple months.
Who's doing #0?
The early arc of Batman & Robin with "No Body" was pretty great I though. It hasn't been as good since then but hey, it's got Damian. The art I go back and forth on hating and loving, the characters are drawn too fat sometimes for my liking.
Nightwing's been pretty decent. Good art, too. Batman Beyond has been OK.
People really hate Detective Comics but I've found it to be passable with great art.
I'll let you know about the others when I get through Catwoman (supposedly horrible), Batman: The Dark Knight, and Legends of the Dark Knight.
BlueScrote
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Batman 12 was awesome. I think it's my favorite from this Run so far. I think Batman stories function really well when he's not center stage.
I feel this way about him too. Having him as the primary vessel that the story is told through brings us too close to him, in my opinion.
I think most everybody here knows I don't really like Batman, but I do actually like the idea of Batman. It's just that we know so much about who and what the Batman is that it heightens the absurdity inherent in the concept of a normal man that has mastered anything and everything relevant to his identity in 25 years (and that's a lot of stuff to learn).
He'd be more enjoyable to me if he could be played up as a figure whose significance is driven by people's belief in the superstition surrounding him, but instead, they try to play him too straight and keep us inside his head.
However, I know that's probably not really the ideal way to sell comics about him.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
^Funny, that's how I feel about Wonder Woman! I start to like her when it isn't all Paradise Island this, and name that Greek god that.
I don't like when they take her back to Paradise Island or involve the gods to such a massive degree either. They start to detract from her. Ares and Circe can stay, but everybody else needs to go home, Hippolyta included. Those things can be fun in small bursts, but having such a large focus on them just takes away from who she is.
Her first act of importance on the road to becoming Wonder Woman was lying to everyone on her island (and Diana is all about Truth, so that's a big fucking deal!) so that she could fight against her peers and win the opportunity to leave her home and all of her people.
Every time they have her go back to the Amazons, that just weakens her, conceptually, more and more.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I'm hoping when WW meets up with Batwoman that she'll turn a corner. Need to get Azzarello off this book ASAP.
Last I heard, Azzarello's run is the highest selling WW has been in a while. So he's likely in for the long haul. Guess I'll go read Rucka's run like I've been planning on forever. lol So hype for the Batwoman cross over.
BlueScrote
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More updates from my haul this week:
Really liked the play between Batwoman and Batgirl in Batgirl #12. It's an interesting dynamic since Batwoman is so ostracized from the rest of the bat-family.
The pay off in Spider-Men #4 was good too. I'm still kind of wary of the whole thing, but it is pretty cool having 616 spidey bounce off the ultimate characters..
Really liked the play between Batwoman and Batgirl in Batgirl #12. It's an interesting dynamic since Batwoman is so ostracized from the rest of the bat-family.
The pay off in Spider-Men #4 was good too. I'm still kind of wary of the whole thing, but it is pretty cool having 616 spidey bounce off the ultimate characters..
You guys are so goddamn wrong it's almost embarrassing. This is probably the best Wonder Woman run in the last decade. Mythology fucking rules.
WascallyWabbit
Member
Hey I love the current WW run! Don't lump us all together now
Angry Angsty Red She Hulk Betty was too weird for me. But I still had every book. I guess we'll never see the end of this Intangible Infinity Engine arc.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
Holy shit at that Allred FF cover.
will buy for him and She Hulk
will buy for him and She Hulk
Spike Spiegel
Member
While we're on the subject of Batman (are we?), what is the deal with them turning him into a Tony Stark wannabe? Seems like every time I see a picture from a New 52 Batman story, the guy's wearing some kind of mecha power armor.
We kinda shifted to WW, but sure. We can talk Bats. lol But yeah, I've been noticing that Batman is getting more and more armor lately. The heat armor from Synder's Batman I was cool with, since I figured he'd made it in case he had to fight Mr. Freeze, but the secret armor he had in the Batmobile (or was that the Batmobile itself) was just random.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
All I want is for Diana to be the focus in a book called Wonder Woman.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I'm just amazed they keep trying to relaunch it. Its like Alpha flight, every so often the book is launched again and the we all get to see how long it lasts this time.
Shin Johnpv
Member
Have to agree with that. I'm kind of done with this story arc that started in issue 1 basically. It's been a year of the same basic arc, time for something different. I like the mythology stuff, but I feel like the book is being written for a 24 issue trade.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Man forgot to get Stokoe's Godzilla at the shop. Anyone know when Wood's Conan trade will be released?
I don't see one coming out this year.
Really enjoyed Batman #12. I always have liked "batman from someone else's point of view". Also, dont want to spoil anything, so ill just say the main characters didn't feel cliched, as sometimes happens in comics.
I'm almost exclusively digital now. It's great.
I'm almost exclusively digital now. It's great.
Not Hack/Slash.
I feel like just saying that would be a dick move so here are some suggestions:
Hellboy and the other Hellboy Universe books
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
From Hell
The Goon (not really horror, but it's got elements)
Locke and Key
Crossed (this is a hard recommendation because I feel like maybe it does go too far visually)
28 Days Later (it's a comic that is best read after the two movies, if you can get the whole series for $25-30 or so, grab it)
There were some horror anthologies (Tales from the Crypt, Creepy, Eerie) that I hear were great.
If you bend the rules a bit and include Preacher, that's probably my favorite long series right there.
Proof (great monster series from a few years back)
People love Sandman, I don't but it's worth mentioning. So is American Vampire.
I feel like there is a lot more options with non-American comics for horror but I'm not well read enough.
I always thought Batman: Arkham Asylum was a horror book as well though it does have Batman in it.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Damn. I miss seeing allreds work. I didn't think it would look so good on daredevil.
Ninja Scooter
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anyone know what the easiest and cleanest way to get all or at least most of the Adams/O'Neal Batman run from the 70s?
What do you mean? Comixology, for example, has all the new 52 stuff up to this week's releases.
DC Comics are released digitally day and date with the physical copies. You should be able to find every thing.
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