Escape Goat
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The only thing good about the RC Reboot is getting Babs out of the chair and Batwoman, both of which could have been done without the reboot so fuck it. Screw you, DC.
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COMICS! #8 / January 2012 - Happy New Year, Comic Book GAF!
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whoa whoa whoa fuck you buddy
No wait that came out wrong.
DC's lineup is the strongest it's been in forever, and there's plenty of great books for everyone. Sure the continuity might confuse and anger you but who fucking cares as long as the books are good.
e: Oh, and not to beat a dead horse or anything, but current Batgirl is the motherfucking pits and if you like it I have a series of studies and graphs showing that you are wrong.
Agreed. Some of you need to get over the butthurt.
WHAT
Escape Goat
Member
Thats the beginning of the new event, right? You can't leave us hanging with a tease.
Spoilers!
-Issue starts with Iron Man and Rulk fighting off the Lethal Legion. Tony spots Red Wing and leaves Rulk to clean up the mess and investigate why Cap and Sam havent reported in
-We get more timeslides to Cable/Hope and more Cable inner dialogue about how much he cares for Hope
-Cable fights tony with a future armor that Tony invented. Cable wins by encoding Aksani into the programming code and frying Tony's tech
-Cable gets ambushed by Rulk while trying to find out info from the captured Avengers. Cable reveals some interesting future info on Rulk by calling him Talbot. The TO virus takes over cable to end the issue
-More great art
-We get more timeslides to Cable/Hope and more Cable inner dialogue about how much he cares for Hope
-Cable fights tony with a future armor that Tony invented. Cable wins by encoding Aksani into the programming code and frying Tony's tech
-Cable gets ambushed by Rulk while trying to find out info from the captured Avengers. Cable reveals some interesting future info on Rulk by calling him Talbot. The TO virus takes over cable to end the issue
-More great art
If it's anything like the first issue, don't bother. I also don't expect it to have any actual importance for AvX.
Escape Goat
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DonasaurusRex
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So they (Cable and Iron Man) just start fighting just to give us a VERSUS fight?
nah in the first issue cable captures the falcon (racist) and cap america (put over job) cause he knows something about their choices and how it affects hope. I think X sanction is tied into Avengers childrens crusade too but who knows that series is so late.
Oooh, looking forward to reading it! Just got back from the shop with
Action Comics #5
Avengers Annual #1
Uncanny X-Force #19.1 (why .1?)
Can't read til later, tho. =(
krypt0nian
Banned
The whole issue man. The whole Morrison wacked out issue!
It's not connected to the ongoing UXF but serves as a launch pad for the new Age of Apocalypse ongoing that shows humans taking the fight against mutants. I think it's being written by David Lapham
there's something im not 100% sure of in this issue
The ship is also Braniac?
definitely one of the worst things I've read in a long time
Eh, it was boring and stupid, but I didn't find it offensively bad. I've read much worse in the past few years.
Father_Brain
Banned
Well, it's not truly awful like Ultimates 3 or Ultimatum. It's just really fucking stupid.
It's kind of funny that Loeb brings Cable back from the dead with no real explanation other than "He just survived his explicit on-panel death, okay? I'm not going to bother explaining exactly how," and then immediately tries to milk tension with an "I have 24 hours before I die really FOR REAL this time I swear" setup.
As for its relevance to AvX, all you need to know is that Hope is connected to the Phoenix Force and you can guess why the Avengers killed her in the timeline Cable was warned about. I can't see it being relevant in any other respect. I suspect that Children's Crusade #9 will be somewhat more important as a lead-in, but even that will probably be summed up in AvX #0.
fredrancour
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slight action comics 5 spoilers, so just don't read it if in doubt:
I got the impression that braniac was a generic kind of kryptonian AI and they had one in the rocket. He was definitely separate from the world collector, I guess the world collector is kryptonian in origin but came from some other instance of the generic braniac stuff? Have they called him Braniac by name? I can't remember, I just went, oh hey brainiac when I realized the story was gonna feature him.
Yup.
The cable ongoing during messiah complex and second coming was one of my favorite books, and in one issue loeb managed to negate the whole conclusion while managing to borrow one of its tropes in a much worse way.
Spike Spiegel
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Bandit, wait until you see who sponsored X-23 to join the Avengers Academy -- you'll flip! 
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Oh wait, you hate X-23. Never mind.
EDIT: Also, I added Fatale to the pile this week because Brubaker/Phillips.
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Oh wait, you hate X-23. Never mind.
EDIT: Also, I added Fatale to the pile this week because Brubaker/Phillips.
The Take Out Bandit
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First issue out of a four issue series.
I'll put my neck out there and say we'll get an explanation of how Cable managed to make it back in time before the series is over.
Bitching about the lack of answers in the first 22 pages out of 88 pages is like crying that you don't know who Keyser Soze is after the first act of The Usual Suspects.
Get used to it. There is no noble sacrifice or permanent death in corporate comics.
Anyhow - today was a good comic book day!
And figured I'd take a chance on Vampirella Vs. Dracula.
Plus used the Christmas cash to help pay for Wally Wood's EC Stories Artist Edition. :3
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Penguin's still great. I'm sad that it's ending so soon. I know the last issue is going to be depressing.
Father_Brain
Banned
Well, except that nothing in the first two issues even hints at any mystery about how Cable returned. There's no indication that the "explanation" in #1 shouldn't be taken at face value. And Loeb hasn't exactly earned much in the way of benefit of the doubt.
...anyway, you seem to viscerally hate just about everything DC and Marvel publish, yet you're gushing over X-Sanction? You have interesting taste.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
what the FUCK is up with the cover design? did they add the new copy with like MacPaint or some shit, oh my fucking GOD wow
wow
WOW
The Take Out Bandit
Member
I'm not "gushing" over it by any stretch of the imagination. I just like when Ed McGuinness draws them funnybooks.
I'll be completely willing to eat crow for my comments if Cable's return is not explained.
Red Hulk under Loeb / McGuinness / Adams is the most fun I've had with a Marvel comic since Astonishing X-Men (Whedon / Cassaday), and it even managed to make Ian Churchill magically less shit in the process! So Loeb has earned some leeway with me.
Father_Brain
Banned
Hey, Uncanny X-Men #4! Now that was a good comic about techno-organic shit.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I dropped Rulk as soon as Iron Man said "OH THE HUMANITY!" un-ironically when the SHIELD carrier went down. Loeb is just completely tone deaf.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Hot dang, Brandon Peterson. Best art that book's gonna have for a while.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Too soon?
Just read X-Sanction #2, it delivers.
Speaking of the rare good Marvel comic, last weeks Captain America with art by Alan Davis is pretty much everything I've wanted out of a Captain America comic for years. Cap fighting other costumed clowns.
I think my project for this year will be to get up to speed on Gold Digger. Plow through all of my Gold Bricks and Platinum trades to get back up to speed with the single issues.
I used to like McGuinness' work long ago (Return to Krypton), but during his run on Batman/Superman I got tired of how all the guys' builds looked identical. Whether it was Captain Atom, Batman, Superman, or Captain Marvel, their bodies all looked the same. Doesn't help that the muscles constantly look tense, either.
On another note, just got back from Target with this little ditty:
They had all the other sets, but I think I'll wait for sales before picking them up. But I had to get something to tide me over. =)
The Take Out Bandit
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Yeah his style early on was clearly from the Bengus / SFA school of proportion. I believe I read an interview where he cited Capcom artists back in the day as an influence, and honestly I wasn't a fan of his DC work. His Superman looked too muscular and too short.
His characters are still a bit squat, but he seems to draw a few variations in build now as opposed to earlier in his career.
In summary, I appreciate his modern work more than his early work.
On another note, just got back from Target with this little ditty:
They had all the other sets, but I think I'll wait for sales before picking them up. But I had to get something to tide me over. =)
:O
I do not need this, but I want this!
I was pooping today and thinking about how green and purple are sort of the unofficial colors of bad guys in the DC Universe.
Speaking of the DC Universe and pooping - I also realized that because of the new 52 I may never see what became of Lobo and his red lantern ring. D:
Speaking of Lobo - Lobo Unbound was re-released in trade last week! Alex Horley painting his ass off. If you like Lobo and titties it's a must buy. Best Lobo book since Simon Bisley was drawing it.
I really enjoyed the Ollie 2.0 thing they were going for with him going back to the island, and getting all that assassin training and dealing with his internal turmoil. Yeah they futzed everything up with Connor and previous storylines, but just before the Blackest Night stuff and the aftermath of that, it seemed like he was turning into a leveled out character. Then they did the whole GA: Murderer thing, and that seemed like they were reverting, and suddenly post reboot we have a 20 something scruffy kid I don't recognize and am having a hard time connecting with. All he wants to do is bang on the drum all day, and talk to thin air, with his team Arrow twins.
Disliking Firestorm, sort of intrigued by the new Superman, and it seems like they got the death threats and kept their hands off of the Bat, for the most part. There's some things I get a kick out of, like the new JLA dynamic, but JLA Lantern seems totally different from GL comic book Hal. All in all, it feels like some form of quantum dislocation, and I expect to be spitting up blood at some point, because something is just not right.
edit: loved Byrne's Omac, so I am not surprised. It's the ch-ch-ch-changes that I'm chaffing at.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I used to like McGuinness' work long ago (Return to Krypton), but during his run on Batman/Superman I got tired of how all the guys' builds looked identical. Whether it was Captain Atom, Batman, Superman, or Captain Marvel, their bodies all looked the same. Doesn't help that the muscles constantly look tense, either.
On another note, just got back from Target with this little ditty:
They had all the other sets, but I think I'll wait for sales before picking them up. But I had to get something to tide me over. =)
WHOA!!!
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Crisis averted!
There's no Lego Ambush Bug.
I just need Wonder Woman.
Then I'll have Wonder Woman and her Lego Invisible Jet.
It's a shame they wasted so many slots on henchman figures.
http://dcuniversesuperheroes.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx?=COHomeNewsUSSuperHeroes
There's no Lego Ambush Bug.
I just need Wonder Woman.
Then I'll have Wonder Woman and her Lego Invisible Jet.
It's a shame they wasted so many slots on henchman figures.
http://dcuniversesuperheroes.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx?=COHomeNewsUSSuperHeroes
The Take Out Bandit
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this exists?
I was being a smartass, lady. :|
Full site is not up.
If it doesn't, then you could always custom order a bunch of transparents legos and make it happen for real.
Action Comics: Can anybody explain the entire second half of the book to me? Not the backup story with the Kents but who
I've read through it twice now and I'm not sure what is going on.
For background, I'm pretty new to all comics as of New 52 relaunch, have read no other Superman (the main Superman title lost me after one boring issue) and I've just been keeping up with Action because I like Grant Morrison a lot. Basically, I have almost no Superman knowledge outside what we've seen in the movies.
were the dudes with all their crazily lettered text, what were they investigating, etc?
For background, I'm pretty new to all comics as of New 52 relaunch, have read no other Superman (the main Superman title lost me after one boring issue) and I've just been keeping up with Action because I like Grant Morrison a lot. Basically, I have almost no Superman knowledge outside what we've seen in the movies.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Damn no GL or Aztek Lego men? Blasphemous.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
How dare they put a Lego logo on that Green Lantern box, that is actually Duplo size.
Grrrr not worth it if I have to install graphic.ly
From what i've figured, this is what i got
Its the anti-superman army that Morrison mentioned in a interview once. For now, these characters are new. The guy in the bandages seems to me like the criminal in the Phantom Zone that Krypto bite earlier. A clue to the mysterious benefactor can be seen in the secret word. It appears in a rainbow box and is incomprehensible. This might mean that it's 5th-dimension based. Which points to Mr Myx. Otherwise, its Morrison, who the fuck knows?
IrishNinja
Member
hey coo, they got a mini on cable coming back and EW LOEB DO NOT WANT
Ok great, thanks. This was a good an answer as I needed. I didn't know if it was some returning thing from past books or not, but knowing what I do of Morrison (having read stuff like Animal Man and some of his Batman stuff) I know eventually everything will come full circle.
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