I thought it was just a tie-in to the videogame, seperate from the rest. Like Injustice on DC
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I thought it was just a tie-in to the videogame, seperate from the rest. Like Injustice on DC
Not really since it is a follow-up to the original Contest of Champions comic events and it takes place on
what's left of Battle World
There are different takes of the heroes fighting against each other however the group lead by the Maestro and the Collector were all stated to be from the main Marvel universe. Also Marvel is now using the word Omniverse instead of multiverse.
graffix13
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Yep. I was hoping it was going to fix things and clear up all the multi-verse stuff. But it almost sounds like it's adding to that.
I have been a loyal X-fan for the last 25+ years, but I think this is where I jump off. The direction isn't anything new and my favorite character (Cyclops) is no where to be seen.
I'm sticking with just the Star Wars books.
Scientist Supreme!
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What makes them terrible? They look cool to me.
It's awful.
WanderingWind
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Ooooph. Doc Strange was an unpleasant surprise. I basically worship Bachalo's art, but even it couldn't save Tony Stark, Sorcerer Supreme Douche.
Ehh, you definitely overstating it. It was alright, though I can see some people being disappointed after all the hype.
Palette Swap
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New Avengers was disappointing as I loved Ewing's previous Avengers volumes, the line up looked interesting and at some point they'll fight the American Kaiju. But I felt not much happened in the issue, the character interactions felt bland and I don't care for the art.
OTOH, I liked Cap a lot. I think the premise exposed in the issue is great, Acuna is still top tier and I'm curious to see how next issue turns out.
OTOH, I liked Cap a lot. I think the premise exposed in the issue is great, Acuna is still top tier and I'm curious to see how next issue turns out.
Happy I found a comic shop near my college. I plan on finally keeping up to date with a comic physically. Though I did get Invincible Iron Man #1 digitally, I plan on getting #2 on physically. I like digital, but something cool about having the physical copy. Plus I think they still give the digital code?
So yeah, I plan on following Amazing Spider-man and Iron Man. Which I believe issues #2 both come out the last week of this month, right?
So yeah, I plan on following Amazing Spider-man and Iron Man. Which I believe issues #2 both come out the last week of this month, right?
Ehhh he's tony in spoken dialogue but I feel he's definitely all Stephen in his head. Not sure where the douche thing is coming from,
WanderingWind
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Pulling a Yoda outside his house, talking about himself in the 3rd person, "yeah, she's in to me," and the whole exchange where he's calling a dude "old man" and talking about how "if I'm murdered, maybe by demons or by any woman I've ever dated." Any one of those things, really. I get that they're doing the hard sell on his overconfidence, but they wrote him more like what a complete shut in should be. "Oh man, wouldn't it be cool if like, he talked shit about his exes all suave like and also had an axe and made out with a demons and had a bitching scarf?"
Blech. Not my cup of tea. I gave it a shot.
Palette Swap
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They come out next week, actually!
WanderingWind
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It's Mark Waid. Of course it's going to be awesome.
On a side note, is anybody else worried that Lemire's hands are going to fall off from writing half of Marvel's lineup?
Palette Swap
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Yeah, my worst case scenario is having a very solid book. A bit like his SHIELD book.
Still, after years of Hickman, I understand and share Dalek's frustration, even if I didn't dislike New Avengers.
Damn, I had forgotten Old Man Logan had that Green Arrow dream team.
Didn't Lemire already write like three concurrent books during his DC stint?
As a fan of the the first run of Spider Gwen I liked the new one. They've done a lot of nice world building. The first series was starting to seem a bit claustrophobia.
The Bodega Bandit is back and still the worst.
The Wasp is a retired billionaire/crime fighter and gave Gwen her web shooters.
Corn dogs should probably get top billing soon.
There's a SHIELD and a Captain America in this universe... but probably not named Steve
The Wasp is a retired billionaire/crime fighter and gave Gwen her web shooters.
Corn dogs should probably get top billing soon.
There's a SHIELD and a Captain America in this universe... but probably not named Steve
Akibastman
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I decided to start reading comics with ANAD Marvel. I'm not totally new to the universe since I always followed what's happening in the Marvel Universe and read a few comics. But it'll be the first time I'm following issue after issue.
I read the 10 new series released so far and I liked almost everything ! The ones I liked the most were Dr. Strange and Iron Man. I didn't like Contest of Champions and probably won't read it. There's no other comics I didn't like enough to not read one or two following issues. So that's good ! I don't like the drawings in Uncanny Avengers but it won't stop me from reading it.
I read the 10 new series released so far and I liked almost everything ! The ones I liked the most were Dr. Strange and Iron Man. I didn't like Contest of Champions and probably won't read it. There's no other comics I didn't like enough to not read one or two following issues. So that's good ! I don't like the drawings in Uncanny Avengers but it won't stop me from reading it.
You have good taste. Contest of Champions wasn't good, and UA has trash art. New Avengers too.
Dr. Strange and Iron Man were the two standouts so far to me.
Akibastman
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Not a big fan of New Avengers art either but it didn't make me go "UGH" like UA.
Like I said earlier, I follow what's happening in the Marvel Universe in general but I have a few questions for MarvelGAF about details I didn't know about:
How come Venom and Kitty are in space ? And why is Venom a good guy ?
I never heard about Parker Industries, how recent is it ?
And next week, there's Angela, Queen of Hel and Karnak, who are these guys ?
Kitty Pride hooked up with Starlord awhile back. Venom is currently inhabiting the body of Flash Thompson and used to be a SHIELD Agent. Now he's in space because... Bendis I guess?
This was established over the course of the Superior Spider-Man run. Great series of books, highly recommended.
Angela is a character marvel inexplicably bought the rights too. She used to be in the Spawn universe. She's nothing but trash.
Karnak is an Inhuman, his ability is that he can find the weakness in anything. He's one of the few cool inhumans.
Akibastman
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Thank you for that. So Osborn-Spiderman founded Parker Industries and now that Peter Parker is himself again, he's running it ?
MHWilliams
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When I did my weekly comic reviews last week, I noted that Marvel essentially gave us three Tony Starks: Stark, Strange, and Parker.
Octavius-Spiderman, but yes.
bengraven
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I was trying to come back. The last two Wolvie and X-men books were fucking EXCELLENT. I would argue they were even better than the Xbooks I read in the 90s. Then things went downhil again and now it's just a big clusterfuck.
It's like when Justice League sucked and it took them years to realize "we should probably put the big characters in this". Just bring back the big X-men, keep the focused goal, stop shoehorning the Inhumans in, Wolvie/Cyclop tension while also teaching New Mutants. Just do it.
-Guardians and 2099 were the best books this week but you probably won't like the former if you don't like the team book Bendis obviously
-Cap and Uncanny were decent, though I need to see how this first Uncanny arc ends
- Spider-Gwen was really bad IMO and the art for NA made it hard for me to follow the book.
-Cap and Uncanny were decent, though I need to see how this first Uncanny arc ends
- Spider-Gwen was really bad IMO and the art for NA made it hard for me to follow the book.
At least he didn't steal your town's money and try to flee the country, right?
Funny cause it's true.
Manmademan
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I would put Cap up there with 2099- but man, then ending to 2099 was such a punch in the junk, holy crap.
to be fair, the parker industries that shows up post secret wars is a LOT different than the pre-secret wars variant. quite a bit appears to have happened in 8 months.
I liked Cap, but there was a little too much jumping around in this issue IMO.
Not in the flesh, just as a passing reference.
I like how Parker Industries is set up with:
There should be something interesting no matter which branch of the company we see.
-the New York branch handled by Peter, Miguel, and Hobie
-Sajani and Anna Maria in London
-The old Horizon staff in San Francisco
-Peter's new love interest in the Shanghai branch
-Sajani and Anna Maria in London
-The old Horizon staff in San Francisco
-Peter's new love interest in the Shanghai branch
There should be something interesting no matter which branch of the company we see.
I made peace with the fact none of this stuff was going to be as good as Hickman months ago.
That said, Uncanny Avengers was OK, New Avebgers was a little better, both with middling art.
Waid's Avengers I'm much less worried about. He has Kubert, who's solid and his Vision story in Avengers #0 was really solid. I thought that FCBD story was super terrible, so I was relieved to see his name in the back of Avengers #0.
Captain America was great. Spencer is writing the character for 2015 and it works.
That said, Uncanny Avengers was OK, New Avebgers was a little better, both with middling art.
Waid's Avengers I'm much less worried about. He has Kubert, who's solid and his Vision story in Avengers #0 was really solid. I thought that FCBD story was super terrible, so I was relieved to see his name in the back of Avengers #0.
Captain America was great. Spencer is writing the character for 2015 and it works.
Manmademan
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that squirrel girl in All New Avengers was a hate crime against my eyeballs.
TheKaeptain
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WHAT THE FUCK SPIDEY 2099...
These aren't tears. Allergies. It's allergies.
These aren't tears. Allergies. It's allergies.
That deathflag was so strong.
Nah the writing in both Avengers is honestly pretty bad imo.
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