beyond_death
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With the release of the Iron Man 3 trailer it has made me realize I have never read any Iron Man with Mandarin in it. Any notable issues I can grab from Comixology?
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Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Haunted, and if you can be bothered (cause it's long and kinda buh as it goes along), Invincible Iron Man, not sure which trades specifically...but its like 2010/2011 stuff.
beyond_death
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Much appreciated.
Palette Swap
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The current arc of Invincible Iron Man is about him too and it's pretty good. Then again, I'd recommend the whole Fraction run.
BuddyJoeHooker
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Oh, so that's why there's an Iron Man sell for Demon in a Bottle and Armor Wars on comixology.
These aren't Mandarin stories btw.
Fraction run was pretty sweet, but it kinda got boring towards the end. Right now it's in crazy land
last issue tomorrow!Vermillion
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So I've been thinking about Superior Spider-Man a bit after I re-read ASM issues 680-687.
In 680 or 681, letters to the editor section, Wacker does say ask how they could change Spider-Man more, then goes on to say that maybe "Peter Parker's time as Spider-Man is over."
Then I read through Ends of the Earth, and in the final fight against Octavius, when he says that he wants Spider-Man to live through the aftermath of the Octavian lens, he notes that is his "dying wish." Certainly, that could mean nothing and be entirely coincidental, but ASM 700 is called Dying Wish... I feel like that's intentional. What it points to, I'm not sure, but.
In 680 or 681, letters to the editor section, Wacker does say ask how they could change Spider-Man more, then goes on to say that maybe "Peter Parker's time as Spider-Man is over."
Then I read through Ends of the Earth, and in the final fight against Octavius, when he says that he wants Spider-Man to live through the aftermath of the Octavian lens, he notes that is his "dying wish." Certainly, that could mean nothing and be entirely coincidental, but ASM 700 is called Dying Wish... I feel like that's intentional. What it points to, I'm not sure, but.
Spiritreaver
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Yeah, I really feel like it tapered off toward the end. Never found myself excited at any point during this latest arc.Fraction run was pretty sweet, but it kinda got boring towards the end. Right now it's in crazy land
BuddyJoeHooker
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Jedeye Sniv
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Yeah exactly. I like how it's not Batman per se. It's Bruce Wayne in a Bat costume. He has a girlfriend, he likes his partners, he's still a badass but he's much more human than the usual Batman we're used to.
That and it's really all based on the 70's Englehart/Rogers run, what with the breezier tone and Silver St Cloud etc.
And I like seeing Walt's art. It's neat.
The Take Out Bandit
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Seriously!
This fuckin' guy. . .
And this is after he spelled out his name in space with a bunch of planets. What a loser! LOL LOL LOL
Is Mephisto "DATASS" facing Thanos?! :O
This fuckin' guy. . .
And this is after he spelled out his name in space with a bunch of planets. What a loser! LOL LOL LOL
Is Mephisto "DATASS" facing Thanos?! :O
BenjaminBirdie
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Did I mention I caught up on The Sixth Gun? Behind only the BPRD-i-verse for best genre comic worldwide. If it wasn't for Chris Ware, they'd be the best comics ever.
Stupid Chris Ware.
Stupid Chris Ware.
I dunno, Slott said on twitter recently that he never said he's killing Peter. They are just trying to generate buzz I think.
Missed that comixology sale by 40 minutes....eventually I'll get it somewhere
thechristoph
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I'm getting into comics with ComiXology, mainly to read the new Masters of the Universe series. Since then I've also picked up Planet Hulk and Marvel NOW Point One. It's a great way to read comics. Since apparently Avengers vs X-Men is what leads up to the Marvel NOW quasi-relaunch (it's kinda confusing...), I figured I'd go back and read that before I get into the new Marvel NOW stuff. The problem is that the regular AVX series isn't available on ComiXology. I downloaded the Marvel iOS app and it is on there, but holy shit are they expensive.
Is this how they roll? They put out some stuff on ComiXology to get you interested, then lure you into their own app and charge 4-5 bucks per book? I don't have a problem spending $20ish on a big collection like Planet Hulk, but five bucks an issue is madness.
Is this how they roll? They put out some stuff on ComiXology to get you interested, then lure you into their own app and charge 4-5 bucks per book? I don't have a problem spending $20ish on a big collection like Planet Hulk, but five bucks an issue is madness.
Spike Spiegel
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Oh come the f*ck on, Marvel.
On the flip, I'll take delays with consistency in artwork over fill-ins by every available intern any day. But this is still a terrible way to start things off with what is supposed to be your flagship title.
On the flip, I'll take delays with consistency in artwork over fill-ins by every available intern any day. But this is still a terrible way to start things off with what is supposed to be your flagship title.
slightconfuse
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We're you expecting Anything less. Planetary took like 5 years to end. And astonishing Xi men was delayed like every other month
booo. I really wanna know what happens next.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Damn, at least Jim Lee got the first story arc out the door on time before he bailed. You only had forever and a day to draw this shit, Cassaday.
Tizoc
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A couple of quick things:
1- Wonder Woman continues to be the best book from DC, along with All-Star Western
2- Daredevil continues to be the best book from Marvel along with Hickman's FF series
3- They killed Cassie?! WHEN DID THIS BS HAPPEN?!!? DAMNIT MARVEL!
4- Don't be hatin' on me GAF
Don't be hatin'
EDIT: Oh and quick GAF, is this worth getting? I LOVE Kirby's OMAC, and want to know if this collection has good paper quality or such-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401217907/?tag=neogaf0e-20
1- Wonder Woman continues to be the best book from DC, along with All-Star Western
2- Daredevil continues to be the best book from Marvel along with Hickman's FF series
3- They killed Cassie?! WHEN DID THIS BS HAPPEN?!!? DAMNIT MARVEL!
4- Don't be hatin' on me GAF
Don't be hatin'
EDIT: Oh and quick GAF, is this worth getting? I LOVE Kirby's OMAC, and want to know if this collection has good paper quality or such-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401217907/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Hey there, a few notes. You can link your marvel app account to your comixology account so you can access your marvel app stuff on comixology. Also, MOST marvel books are available on comixology and not marvel app exclusive, and the pricing is not different on Marvel's site to my knowledge, most of their popular books are 3.99 an issue. DC has 2.99/3.99 books but they drop $1 in price after 30 days, typically, and Marvel right now doesn't do that. When you bought planet hulk it was probably on sale, Marvel has sales every monday on comixology and sometimes on the weekend too, along with other companies who run sales weekly ( usually 3 sales every weekend and a couple during the week). Those are your best times to buy digitally.
Also ^^^ Invincible is great!
Father_Brain
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It's no secret that Cassaday is a slow artist. Downright baffling that Marvel would not only put him on their flagship Marvel NOW! book, but solicit it without having multiple issues in the can.
my name is ed
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A few years ago, when I went to Dallas Comic Con, Cassaday was the guest of honor. In the program, there was a biography of Cassaday. The biography attempted to explain that Cassaday only had the reputation of being slow, but that in reality, he was fast! Seriously.
Tizoc
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My brutha, I ignore the haters I've enjoyed the comic and still do. I don't think Conquest appears until the later 50 issues, but this is still awesome on it's own ^o^.
BTW, WHERE'S MY NEW BATMAN INC, DC?!?!!?!?!?
A couple of quick things:
1- Wonder Woman continues to be the best book from DC, along with All-Star Western
2- Daredevil continues to be the best book from Marvel along with Hickman's FF series
3- They killed Cassie?! WHEN DID THIS BS HAPPEN?!!? DAMNIT MARVEL!
4- Don't be hatin' on me GAF
Don't be hatin'
EDIT: Oh and quick GAF, is this worth getting? I LOVE Kirby's OMAC, and want to know if this collection has good paper quality or such-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401217907/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Cassie died during Children's Crusade I believe.
A couple of quick things:
1- Wonder Woman continues to be the best book from DC, along with All-Star Western
2- Daredevil continues to be the best book from Marvel along with Hickman's FF series
3- They killed Cassie?! WHEN DID THIS BS HAPPEN?!!? DAMNIT MARVEL!
4- Don't be hatin' on me GAF
Don't be hatin'
Always stoked to see people reading Invincible
. 100 is coming up soon!!!
Tizoc
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What the f-, I need to reread that series =_= Guess I'll marathon the Young Avengers series in the next day or 2 as I have a few days off.
Palette Swap
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Damn, that's all the more troubling when you consider Inc essentially dropped a month this summer.
As for Invincible, I'm totally dreading issue 100. I'm expecting some really crazy shit on that front.
It was one of the last things that happened. It didn't had a purpose or reason other than Marvel's morbid obsession with the murder of teenage girls. But as I said somewhere, Iron Lad/Kang took her to the future with him, so her ressurection is half-written already.
The teaser images(hurr) have been pretty blatant as far as what they want us to think is going to happen. I'm just happy that Mark is going to be back soon.
damn b
Supermanisdead
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Children's Crusade is in the running for worst miniseries ever made. The story was pure shit. The worst written Scarlet Witch "redemption" fan fiction. The creative team had many months headstart and they still couldn't manage to keep up with 1 issue every two months. It was so delayed that costumes changed before and during the series and nobody could ever figure out where it was in the continuity. I can't believe we waited 5 years for that garbage followup to Young Avengers. RIP Cassie Lang. You were a meaningless death in a shitshow.
I can't help but notice that whenever a character someone likes dies, it is always "meaningless". What is a "meaningful" death, exactly? Does it constantly have to be sacrifice to be made alright? Wouldn't that be a little repetitive? Is this just another way comic fans like to say "I don't like this" without actually saying that much like "this is a boring character/story" is? Just a thought...
Deified Data
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I think he's cringing at the awkwardness.
Supermanisdead
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Well, meaningful would be like Jean Grey in DPS and Planet X. Or Kitty Pryde in Giant Size AXM, or Colossus in the late 90s. Something that affects the characters, or future stories.
Cassie gets killed by Dr Doom, and it is literally never mentioned again. A close family friend and their babysitter, not to mention the daughter of a former member, is killed by Dr Doom and the FF goes on like nothing happened. Dr Doom was a member before and after he killed a 15 year old! So yeah, definitely meaningless IMO. I don't even remember if there was a funeral.
Cassie gets killed by Dr Doom, and it is literally never mentioned again. A close family friend and their babysitter, not to mention the daughter of a former member, is killed by Dr Doom and the FF goes on like nothing happened. Dr Doom was a member before and after he killed a 15 year old! So yeah, definitely meaningless IMO. I don't even remember if there was a funeral.
Everybody just wants to be loved, even giant purple space monsters with a ball chin.
Palette Swap
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I hope he'll stay. These teaser pictures are a bit too obvious to be exactly what they appear to be.
Then again, I'm confident this will turn out to be interesting. I caught up on 50 issues last month and I like how the book can be morally grey at times or at least not give you the clear cut resolutions you'd expect. It often goes for shock value but beyond that, it makes sense in the world of Invincible. The resolution of the Viltrumite war or the thing with the dino dude are examples of this. It's not what you'd expect/want but it works and moves the book forward.
Much more so than in the Walking Dead IMO, where things tend to stall.
Then again, I'm saying this as someone who's read 98% of the series back to back.
The binding (gluing) is the usual shit but it's a thin book. The paper is essentially the same as on the other Kirby collections (4th world, the Demon, Kamandi): old school rough paper, not glossy stuff. I love it because I think it fits the art.
Scott Lang hasn't let it go in marvel now .1 clearly.
I get what you're saying and I agree to a point. Death can sometimes come out of nowhere, but what you are already giving your answer. Yes, it is another way to say it is a bad story, but to mark that this particular exploitative device was used in trying to give weight to a bad story, which is its own argument outside of "it's bad because I didn't like it".
Supermanisdead
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Great. His revenge is defacing Dr Doom's portrait... a whole 10 months after her death. So great that she died so we could get a cute 8 page story almost a year later.
Grenouille
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So I started reading Hawkeye and, really, this art is incredible. Aja is like old Mazzucchelli but better.
In the case of children's crusade in particular, wouldn't it be hard to incorporate that story in the past books because of how long it took to conclude? If there was to be any lasting effect to really get in there, wouldn't it be better represented in marvel now's FF and young avengers books? It just doesn't seem fair if I am writing future foundation and my story is ready to go when suddenly I need to rewrite everything to match up to a story that has been going on for what feels like ages.
I obviously don't know when what story was written already, but it's just a thought I had.
Relax it was a sampler story at best. FF hasn't started yet. It set the point that this seriously effected him and this event wasn't forgotten, which was your original complaint. Also you think Scott is going to get a chance to kill Doom or something? That won't happen.
I obviously don't know when what story was written already, but it's just a thought I had.
Relax it was a sampler story at best. FF hasn't started yet. It set the point that this seriously effected him and this event wasn't forgotten, which was your original complaint. Also you think Scott is going to get a chance to kill Doom or something? That won't happen.
BenjaminBirdie
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uh lol isn't his revenge the whole point of ff and what that "cute 8 page story" is setting up
Supermanisdead
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Of course. I don't think Hickman and co. should have their stories messed up due to some shoddy miniseries. I think it should be the other way around. Marvel shouldn't have let Heinburg use Dr Doom to kill a young girl when the character is a member of a superhero team that, under normal circumstances, would not stand for that shit.
The same thing happened in the Doom War miniseries. Dr Doom was the crazed villain who caused the destruction of Wakanda's supply Vibranium and killed Black Panther's family, but that was never mentioned again because the other Doom writers had ongoing work with the character that couldn't be interrupted by random plot twists.
Yeah, the guy literally saying "Everbody's gotta start somewhere" should've given away the fact that things are far from over.
Lucked out hard yesterday, a friend of mine that works at a comic shop found an extra copy of Hawkeye 1 tucked away in their back room. No one knew what it was doing back there so he put it aside for me! Was having terrible luck looking for one, word got out fast with that book.
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