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Reading Azzarello's interviews for Wonder Woman is fun cause it's always just him saying, "Give me some time to work here, brahs. I got this."

I feel like someone is going to die in Spidey 700. Not Spidey, and probably not Alpha, but someone. Beyond that, no idea what Dan could be plotting. It worries me a little.

No doubt about Azz.


I can deal with the average writing in the Flash when both manpaul and Bucaccaletto are on it since the art and presentation is so dynamic and righteous.


And can Amy Reeder please put aside her differences and comeback to Batwoman please?
 
One of the big reasons they did OMD was so they can put the rabbit back in the hat with the secret identity. They're not gonna reveal that again; it closes off more stories then it opens, and that's the death of serial storytelling. Plus, I never liked the idea of EVERYBODY knowing Peter is Spidey. It makes Peter Parker a world (in)famous celebrity, which is completely against the "mostly regular guy who could be you" idea of the character.
Slott has also said that he can't believe no one has done this before with Spider-Man. I really hope this isn't going to be a Spidey version of Knightfall/End/Quest with Alpha being the Jean-Paul character. I also hope that MJ doesn't die.
 
Slott has also said that he can't believe no one has done this before with Spider-Man. I really hope this isn't going to be a Spidey version of Knightfall/End/Quest with Alpha being the Jean-Paul character. I also hope that MJ doesn't die.

Honestly they've done so much stuff with Spidey that it's hard to think what's left.
 
Check out Batman Inc. I don't feel it's better than WW or Batman but it's up there among the best of DC right now. I agree with you though that the New 52 has been mediocre lately. I remember how excited I was to pick up Animal Man for the first several months but now it's like "meh".

I do get Batman Inc, i liked, when i could understand it, Morrison's pre new 52 batman inc arc. I'm waiting to accumulate several issues to start reading it though.

my dc new 52 list by ranking tiers:

stand out titles:

Wonder Woman

good stuff

Batman - took a little bit too long to get to something i didn't like in issue 11, still good and the art is great
Justice League Dark
Demon Knights - slow, but i like the characters, up to issue 8 so far.
Frankenstein - before it turns into a Rotworld tie-in

solid, sometimes iffy

Green Lantern - would be in a higher tier if it weren't for the Third Army crossover thing
Justice League - decent, not great but it's johns/top artists and is entertaining
Aquaman - iffy first arc but i liked The Others
Action Comics - really mixed quality, one great issue so far.
Animal Man - has taken forever to get anywhere
Swamp Thing- same as Animal
Batwoman - bad first arc but got better, i'm at issue 9
Batman and Robin - i like Damian but that's about it


close to dropped:

Green Lantern New Guardians
Green Lantern Corps - Stewart and Guy can die
Flash
Earth 2 - really bad dialog

Need to read more:

Dial H - good first issue
Batman Inc - saving issues.
 
The minute? Gross misrepresentation. He started off trying to save the remnants of the mutant race.

Also, read New X-Men and then let me know if Emma Frost hasn't evolved since she was in the Hellfire Club.

Then in that moment he betrayed her. Do you really think Jean Grey would ever have locked up the Avengers, sided with Magneto, and basically declared war on the world while she was still on top of the Phoenix powers? No. Scott's vision of "saving mutantkind" discounted the deaths of worlds the Phoenix eliminated on its way to Earth.

When the Phoenix destroyed one system it repulsed Jean so much she killed herself to prevent it from happening again. Scott was willing to allow it multiple times if it meant saving mutantkind. That's a difference so stark and contrasting that I cannot believe that Scott himself didn't see that as a sign. This thing ruined his wife's life, and Scott Summers STILL wanted it.

And it doesn't matter if Emma has "changed" since the Hellfire Club. She's still one of two people responsible for ruining Jean's life by causing the Dark Phoenix to happen. Indirectly, everyone who died on that planet, and all of Jean's family, all that blood is on HER hands. The other guy involved in that had his mind broken into a thousand tiny pieces. Emma instead got Jean's job, her husband, and an entire broken timeline to justify it.

And there's no way that the Phoenix Five are going to end well. Maybe they won't blow up a star, but imprisoning Earth's Mightiest HEROES isn't a good sign. That's what Doctor Doom would do. All of them will come to an unhappy end except Emma, because if you can break a girl's mind and not be responsible when she then blows up a star, you're not very likely to ever be held accountable for anything you ever do.

Really though, I'll settle for Namor being humiliated. That guy is PERPETUALLY smug. If I could just have one panel of him looking on in absolute horror as this all backfires in his face, it'll be great.
 
I kind of worry Spidey might be headed to a bit too grimdark territory but it could be an interesting "new to comics" route that Slott may have been tempted to take. Theres that new morose looking red and black suit that Marvel Now teased, Pete's getting awful cold about what exactly he plans to do with his rogues gallery that keeps on escaping prison whatever and murdering up a storm or hurting innocent civilians.

Is he gonna straight up kill a villain? This is a complaint people aim at Batman and the Joker particularly, that its pure disconnecting nonsense that Batman wouldn't have got over what his problem is and just off the bastard. Spidey's had the Green Goblin essentially murder his girlfriend, the Jackal fuck with his life to such an extent its unreal, and suffer plenty of other casualties on the way. The Last Hunt almost sent him over the edge, maybe Alpha getting offed by one of his rogues gallery will actually do it. Hell, maybe a Hobgoblin will accidentally kill MJ.
 
Damn I need to order more DMZ and Northlanders next week. Brah is awesome. May even look into buying now. Does DMZ eventually have an over arching plot or is it more anthology like Northlanders?
 
Reading Azzarello's interviews for Wonder Woman is fun cause it's always just him saying, "Give me some time to work here, brahs. I got this."

I feel like someone is going to die in Spidey 700. Not Spidey, and probably not Alpha, but someone. Beyond that, no idea what Dan could be plotting. It worries me a little.

Reading #691, my certainty is only increasing that Spider-Man will kill someone.
 
Reading #691, my certainty is only increasing that Spider-Man will kill someone.

If he legit kills someone it better not be sum ticky tack villain like Stitlted man. Kill a member of the Sinister Six and never return. Don't want ti to be like Silver Sable recently where Madamme Webb was like "lol brah, she still alife"
 
If he legit kills someone it better not be sum ticky tack villain like Stitlted man. Kill a member of the Sinister Six and never return. Don't want ti to be like Silver Sable recently where Madamme Webb was like "lol brah, she still alife"

If he does do it, I'm pretty sure it's going to be the new Hobgoblin. He's relatively new, the problem is that won't really affect the Marvel Universe as a whole. Maybe he does it and turns into a sort of super powered Punisher. I dunno, it just seems too obvious and how many of us saw what happened to the lizard coming?
 
New Avengers #20 was a lot better on MDCU than had i spent $2.39 on it like i did the previous issues before dropping the title. Surprise, slow moving somewhat fun books are enjoyable if you aren't paying extra for them!

The plot is still dumber than rocks.
 
The single best writer currently working at Marvel handling the (very) long-in-coming return of Young Avengers as an ongoing series? Please, let it be true.

Is this going to have every teen hero in the Marvel Universe in some kind of rotating cast, I wonder? It was said back at SDCC that there's an upcoming ongoing book that will feature cast members from both Runaways and Secret Warriors, and we also know that the Avengers Academy cast will be appearing somewhere after that series ends. Hmm.
 
I'd be up for a Gillen Young Avengers with kid loki in there.

Also, read Batman and Robin 9-11 in my initiative to read comics: Fairly good, reminds me of the quicker moving short stories that followed Morrison leaving the title before the relaunch.
 
I still like Rucka's run and take on the character more, but its been the best since Rucka

The only problem with Rucka's run was that it was cut too short (Thanks, Infinite Crisis!), so some plot threads were just left hanging. Other than that, best take on the character.
 
I'd be up for a Gillen Young Avengers with kid loki in there.

Also, read Batman and Robin 9-11 in my initiative to read comics: Fairly good, reminds me of the quicker moving short stories that followed Morrison leaving the title before the relaunch.

Young Avengers can't be written by another writer than Allan Heinburg, he has a deal with marvel that says so
 
Like who? They may have appeared in other books (I believe they made a cameo in civil war) but they can't do a young avengers book without Heinburg

Edit: this statement needed some kinda source
http://ifanboy.com/articles/damn-you-heinberg-give-me-more-young-avengers

I guess it's more of an agreement with Heinburg at the very least, but it's possible they put it in his contract

Zeb Wells wrote the YA/Runaways Civil War mini. Chris Yost wrote the SI one. Paul Cornell wrote YA: Dark Reign. And the characters have appeared all over the place
 
Young Avengers can't be written by another writer than Allan Heinburg, he has a deal with marvel that says so

Which is funny considering he totally ruined them in that shitty Children's Crusade mini. Marvel needs to cut ties and get this team going already. Waiting for Heinburg while they become more and more irrelevant by the day... smh.
 
Zeb Wells wrote the YA/Runaways Civil War mini. Chris Yost wrote the SI one. Paul Cornell wrote YA: Dark Reign. And the characters have appeared all over the place

First off : Some of those event tie ins featured different characters, NOT the ones Heinburg created
second, you should read the link, did u ever wonder why there was such a large gap between volumes one and two? No one is allowed to write that main series other than Heinburg
 
after reading all the praise it gets around here, I've decided to start reading BPRD. I never really knew what the series was about, but looking into it, it seems like something I should have been reading all along. If I had known it was all about all types of different paranormal/Lovecraftian stuff I would have probably got on it sooner

I've never read Hellboy either so i'll probably start with that up to the part where BPRD splits off. I already got the first BPRD hardcover collection and tried to read Hollow Earth, but I just feel like I should go back and catch up to get the full story since I feel like i've missed out on too much stuff. Gonna look for some of the collections tomorrow and start getting into it
 
First off : Some of those event tie ins featured different characters, NOT the ones Heinburg created
second, you should read the link, did u ever wonder why there was such a large gap between volumes one and two? No one is allowed to write that main series other than Heinburg

Yet the YA are in all of them. Like the whole team.

And because Heinberg, a slow writer, teamed up with a slow artist. Seriously, Jim Cheung is slow, but man does he draw a pretty Magneto
 
First off : Some of those event tie ins featured different characters, NOT the ones Heinburg created
second, you should read the link, did u ever wonder why there was such a large gap between volumes one and two? No one is allowed to write that main series other than Heinburg

No, the article says nothing of the kind. It was Marvel's decision not to resume YA as an ongoing series until Heinberg and Cheung could return in some capacity. They did, and now that Children's Crusade is over, the way is presumably clear.
 
after reading all the praise it gets around here, I've decided to start reading BPRD. I never really knew what the series was about, but looking into it, it seems like something I should have been reading all along. If I had known it was all about all types of different paranormal/Lovecraftian stuff I would have probably got on it sooner

I've never read Hellboy either so i'll probably start with that up to the part where BPRD splits off. I already got the first BPRD hardcover collection and tried to read Hollow Earth, but I just feel like I should go back and catch up to get the full story since I feel like i've missed out on too much stuff. Gonna look for some of the collections tomorrow and start getting into it

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Just read Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder. It's good, but I'm not quite sure what else there is to say about it. The welding metaphor is a little heavy-handed, and although the dialogue is well written there's nothing much there that hasn't been said or done before in virtually every kind of media ever.

Maybe I shouldn't ask for anything more than that - the artwork's great unsurprisingly and it's very evocative - but I will admit to being a bit disappointed in how the underwater aspects were handled. I think I was just expecting something a bit creepier? I guess I thought it might be more high-concept than it actually was.
 
Today's Marvel sale on Comixology is Avengers Academy and Secret Avengers. I picked up 6-8 of SA. I don't know if Avengers Academy is any good.
 
No, the article says nothing of the kind. It was Marvel's decision not to resume YA as an ongoing series until Heinberg and Cheung could return in some capacity. They did, and now that Children's Crusade is over, the way is presumably clear.

Yet the YA are in all of them. Like the whole team.

And because Heinberg, a slow writer, teamed up with a slow artist. Seriously, Jim Cheung is slow, but man does he draw a pretty Magneto

From the wiki (LINK):

The 2009 Dark Reign: Young Avengers limited series written by Paul Cornell, and Mark Brooks,introduces a new group of powered teens calling themselves the Young Avengers.

The point is this: I originally responded to someone saying that it would be cool if Kieron Gillen wrote the Young Avengers series, which I pointed out was unlikely to happen since it appears that Heinburg has a lock and key on the characters
 
From the wiki (LINK):

The 2009 Dark Reign: Young Avengers limited series written by Paul Cornell, and Mark Brooks,introduces a new group of powered teens calling themselves the Young Avengers.

The point is this: I originally responded to someone saying that it would be cool if Kieron Gillen wrote the Young Avengers series, which I pointed out was unlikely to happen since it appears that Heinburg has a lock and key on the characters

I don't know why that mispelling keeps making me think of Heisenberg.
 
Is anyone reading Transformers Regeneration One? This shit tickles my nostalgia bone so hard. I can't believe the same guy from '91 is picking up the torch from where he left off with the original Marvel run.
 
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