Manmademan
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You might want to wait on that for oh...an issue or two.
December Comic |OT| Apocalypse NOW - Time Enough At Last.
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You might want to wait on that for oh...an issue or two.
DonasaurusRex
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i dunno uncanny xmen was a teen book and it was bleak as shit..fall of mutants, and such sometimes you gotta temper your heroes with pain and ...death panels.
I still have money on all the deaths being retconned in the last issue of the series.
Are any of those characters even worth retconning back to life though? I'm asking honestly, I don't know.
It would make for an interesting comic. Put them all on a team after they spent god knows how long hunting and killing each other. They'll all have PTSD at this point too. Put the right writer on it and it could be very cool.
To get to my idea you have to get a murder comic first. Everyone has to die, there has to be a lot of betrayal and it all has to be filled with the worst kinds of MUUUUUUURRRRRRDDDERRRRRR in order to work.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Well I like the fact
Mettle exploded into gibs
The Take Out Bandit
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Yeah, I hate it when people make comments I disagree with as well - luckily I find being brusque and dismissive a great way to deal with their audacity
Yes.
I've got a spinal injury and a penis, and can still manage this pose.
Comic book white knights need to give it a rest.
Vermillion
Banned
Huh. On that note, I tried it, and can manage it. Well, save for the whole knee cross thing. That part's strange and hurts.
Yeah, but death and despair wasn't the central conceit of Uncanny X-Men, whereas the entire point of Avengers Arena is that teens are murdering other teens. Plus it was a different era, so it wasn't like every other comic tried to be The Most Serious Important Thing Ever, Look We Have Sadness And Murder On Every Single Goddamn Page.
Again, I have not read the book at all, but it feels like it's taking a feel-good fun coming of age adventure like Avengers Academy was and turning it into another comic where bad things happen all the time.
The Take Out Bandit
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Yep.
Close enough for government work, which is doubly fine for comics.
I used to think the crazy organ swelling and deformities of Fist of the North Star were so much fictional bullshit, but then I landed a job in a medical school. What is seen cannot be unseen. D:
Man. . .
I can't believe Seely and Gaston are off this book in favor of this:
I'm assuming these characters aren't actually standing together here, but it's Liefield. :|
Hopefully this loon doesn't fuck up his Extreme re-launch by assuming control of more titles. Issue #33 of Bloodstrike (I realize how stupid it looks as I type it) dropped a "Prophet returns to Earth" line which could be bad news for Hipsters in Spaaaace!
More important - don't fuck with Glory Robby. >:|
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Man I'd love for Skottie Young to be off these Oz books. Brah would kill it on a Tiny X Men, a Disney or Muppets property, or Iron Man.
And Kirkman is going off the deep end in the latest Invinicble issue.
And Kirkman is going off the deep end in the latest Invinicble issue.
Father_Brain
Banned
I don't have a problem, at least not on a conceptual level, with a story where a teen character dies. I do, however, have a problem with an entire series premised on killing off teen characters on a semi-regular basis.
Much of the Kyle/Yost run on New X-Men read like this, IIRC, and by the time it ended, it had gone from shocking to distasteful to merely tiresome.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
When is that brah going to get out of prison again so we can get more Ant?
The Take Out Bandit
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What the?!
I thought I already mentioned this.
Erik Larsen bought Ant (WHY?!) from Mario Gully.
Ass-men rejoice?
In the end, it turns out that it was all a simulation.
Anyone have read the new Shadowman comic?
I only knew the character from the ancient (and kickass) N64 game, I've never read any of the old run, but the new one is fun!
In the old series he was white? I always thought he was black...I mean, he was black in the game.
Why would they change it?
I'm liking this Valiant revival...X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and Harbinger were all fun comics!
I only knew the character from the ancient (and kickass) N64 game, I've never read any of the old run, but the new one is fun!
In the old series he was white? I always thought he was black...I mean, he was black in the game.
Why would they change it?
I'm liking this Valiant revival...X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and Harbinger were all fun comics!
The Take Out Bandit
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IIRC the original Shadowman was a mixed race Creole. The new Shadowman is very similar to the original.
there was also a slave era Shadowman in the original series when they'd have flashback stories.
I skipped the bald gangsta wank Acclaim comics reboot since I was such a fan of the original character.
so far the new series hasn't let me down.
Glad to know you're enjoying it too TTOB! What are your thoughts on the others new Valiant comics?
Comixology is really a blessing and a curse to me. On one hand I have access to a lot of stuff I would never be able to buy, and even better on day 1. On the other side I have never ever spent so much money on comics like I'm spending now...
I really should stop impulse buying stuff, but so far I think I enjoyed most of the books I impulse bought so it's hard to resist.
Comixology is really a blessing and a curse to me. On one hand I have access to a lot of stuff I would never be able to buy, and even better on day 1. On the other side I have never ever spent so much money on comics like I'm spending now...
I really should stop impulse buying stuff, but so far I think I enjoyed most of the books I impulse bought so it's hard to resist.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Wait the new Valiant comics are good?
The Take Out Bandit
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I'm enjoying Bloodshot and Shadowman.
Archer & Armstrong is a little too different from the original, it's interesting; but I'm not looking for a socio-political theme comic so I didn't bother picking up the next issue.
Taking a pass on Harbinger and X-O.
So I'm pretty much reading the same Valiant books I read back in the 90's.
I might be down for another Doctor Mirage.
Incredibly well done thus far.
Archer & Armstrong is a little too different from the original, it's interesting; but I'm not looking for a socio-political theme comic so I didn't bother picking up the next issue.
Taking a pass on Harbinger and X-O.
So I'm pretty much reading the same Valiant books I read back in the 90's.
I might be down for another Doctor Mirage.
Incredibly well done thus far.
Love how you just casually threw Iron Man in there at the end. Well played.
GrandHarrier
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Finesse's simulation, which she is running using all the in depth information in those Avengers Archives she started delving into in Avengers Academy.
All you really need to know about Batman And Robin #15 is that it's a whole bunch of call-backs to pretty much everything you'd think a Batman comic starring a returning Joker would call back to, with a pretty goddamn amazing pay-off. Great fucking stuff.
Also, it has this.
(actually, Patrick Gleason does much, much worse things in the issue, but this is the big money shot)
Also, it has this.
(actually, Patrick Gleason does much, much worse things in the issue, but this is the big money shot)
Any reference to Damian's interactions with the Joker in Morrison's run on the title pre New 52?
I just read Action #14. First time I've been really disappointed with Grant Morrison and this run.
First of all, the idea that Superman can hear a cry for help from that far away is ridiculous. Not to mention that sound wouldn't travel through space. So stupid.
But then he flies to Mars? I thought the Superman 5 years ago in Action Comics couldn't fly yet. Did I miss something?
It was also a really odd choice to have a cliffhanger at the end ... then go directly into the backup story which takes place two weeks later and everything is fine.
Anyway, when did he learn to fly?
First of all, the idea that Superman can hear a cry for help from that far away is ridiculous. Not to mention that sound wouldn't travel through space. So stupid.
But then he flies to Mars? I thought the Superman 5 years ago in Action Comics couldn't fly yet. Did I miss something?
It was also a really odd choice to have a cliffhanger at the end ... then go directly into the backup story which takes place two weeks later and everything is fine.
Anyway, when did he learn to fly?
I think it was in this issue of Action Comics, #6, titled "When Superman Learned to Fly"
http://www.comicvine.com/action-comics-when-superman-learned-to-fly-last-day/37-313619/
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
This run has been set in lots of different times, and the Mars stuff was set in 'the future'. It's mostly explained in AC #15
I thought they just temporarily gave him a Legion of Super-heroes flight ring at the end. And that was when he was a boy so he still wasn't flying on his own after that.
sazabirules
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This week has been my smallest in weeks. I'm just picking up Batman today.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Don't know about anyone else's NEXT week but somehow it's like four times as big
This Week:
Amazing Spider-Man #699.1
Avengers Arena #1
Avengers Assemble #10
Cable and X-Force #1
Conan the Barbarian #11
Dark Avengers #184
Fantastic Four #2
Massive #7
Next Week:
A + X #3
All New X-Men #4
America's Got Powers #4
Avengers #2
Avengers Arena #2
B.P.R.D. 1948 #3
B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth: Return of the Master #5
Bravest Warriors #3
Cable and X-Force #2
Captain America #2
Daredevil Vol. 3 #21
Fatale #11
Ff #2
Happy #3
Haunt #28
Hawkeye #6
Indestructible Hulk #2
Journey Into Mystery #647
Multiple Warheads Alphabet To Infinity #3
Nowhere Men #2
Prophet #32
Saga #8
Secret Avengers #35
The Sixth Gun #27
Thor God of Thunder #3
Thunderbolts #2
Uncanny X-Force #35
Wolverine and the X-Men #22
WTHHHH SPREAD THAT SHIT OUT RIGHT, COMICS.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Of the comics I'm getting this week, NONE of them are Marvel. Some Image, some Dark Horse, that's it.
Next week, I think I have like...EIGHT on my pull list >_>. Not to mention new BPRD/Multiple Warheads/Fatale...
I think the problem is that the only book they're putting on the last week is ASM 700 and AVSM 15.1 or whatever, so....everything comes out that one week
Next week, I think I have like...EIGHT on my pull list >_>. Not to mention new BPRD/Multiple Warheads/Fatale...
I think the problem is that the only book they're putting on the last week is ASM 700 and AVSM 15.1 or whatever, so....everything comes out that one week
sazabirules
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A big week for me is when I pick up three titles. :/ Next week is going to be good with Captain America, Hawkeye, and Saga.
Ok, I know Cable has been out of it for a while but who the shit thought Cable fans were so hard up that they needed a fix two weeks in a row? Doesn't make any damn sense. They trying to meet some YTD sales quota or something?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Like Avengers Arena has a bigger fanbase? Same deal, same dumb.
Don't underestimate #teamarcade. They should probably kill the entire cast of AA off in the first arc and just make that an Arcade book. Roll the influential point of reference from Hunger Games back a few years and make it superhero Saw.
The Take Out Bandit
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Mega Man #20
Dan The Unharmable #8
Orchid #11
Saucer Country #10
Borderlands Origins #2
Crow Skinning The Wolves #1 (James O'Barr returns to beat resurrected vengeance horses)
Body Bags Volume 2
Bloodshot #6
Dan The Unharmable #8
Orchid #11
Saucer Country #10
Borderlands Origins #2
Crow Skinning The Wolves #1 (James O'Barr returns to beat resurrected vengeance horses)
Body Bags Volume 2
Bloodshot #6
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Keep Dave Johnson on covers and Kev on interiors and it would be my book of the year.
The Take Out Bandit
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I'll be damned, you're right. It's up to five parts already. :O
I hope that blue bastard doesn't try kissing anybody in this.
Kung Fu Grip
Banned
Seems like a good place to post this.
Any reason why Gotham Central collected editions are listed as hardcover when they're paperback? I just got book 1 in the line of duty and it's a paperback. Are there hardcovers i don't know about?
Any reason why Gotham Central collected editions are listed as hardcover when they're paperback? I just got book 1 in the line of duty and it's a paperback. Are there hardcovers i don't know about?
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