Rafa=FedKilla
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Aquaman is a great book.
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COMICS! April 2012 |OT| It's a new month? Already?!
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I'm...not the only one? Praise be. :') *brofist*
WascallyWabbit
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I've been loving Aquaman too! DOUBLE BROFIST!
krypt0nian
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Spike Spiegel
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Everyone that picked up AvX Versus should have bought Uncanny X-Men #11 instead. Worth it for the Colossernaut introspection alone.
And Cyclops' "A Letter to Humanity"?
And Cyclops' "A Letter to Humanity"?
Chilling. :O :O :O
ViewtifulJC
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UXM #11's artwork is terrible, but every word Gillen writes inside the pages is perfect. Including that letter.
Escape Goat
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Cyclops = Magneto = Xorn
krypt0nian
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The cycle of mischaracterization complete.
Side note: finally took your suggestion of X-Factor and I have to say I was a fool to have missed this for so long. Started with the Rahne wolf baby hunt issue, and am now current through the Alex/Lorna stuff.
Just to gush some more, holy shit. Gillen single-handedly sold me on the idea that AvX is the logical place the last year or so of X-Men stories was heading towards. This is unbelievably fucking brilliant.
The cycle of mischaracterization complete.
Side note: finally took your suggestion of X-Factor and I have to say I was a fool to have missed this for so long. Started with the Rahne wolf baby hunt issue, and am now current through the Alex/Lorna stuff.
yes, another one! The way David just decides to do random storylines and tie them all together is incredible
I didn't think Cyclops could be more annoying than he has been during the past couple of months but his character in the whole A vs X thing has gone to downright villainous.
I don't buy Uncanny X-Men because i already buy WATXM and Uncanny X-Force and i dont' want to buy another $3.99 double shipping X-Men book. That and i did buy the first issue and i didn't like the plot.
Out of Icognito Classified OHC/Batwing tpb vol 1/Defenders vol 1 tpb/Incredible Hulk Aaron OHC, i ended up just ordering Defenders to get caught up.
Out of Icognito Classified OHC/Batwing tpb vol 1/Defenders vol 1 tpb/Incredible Hulk Aaron OHC, i ended up just ordering Defenders to get caught up.
Spike Spiegel
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"Villainous"? Foreign invaders have just set foot on his nation's soil with the intent to kidnap one of his people, who also happens to be his adoptive granddaughter.
krypt0nian
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That she may destroy the planet played no part.
Maybe villainous was the wrong word, but even(spoiler for today's AvsX Round 1)
Magneto realized that they weren't in the right and was telling Iron Man that the Avengers would need the Scarlet Witch.
Escape Goat
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The cycle of mischaracterization complete.
Side note: finally took your suggestion of X-Factor and I have to say I was a fool to have missed this for so long. Started with the Rahne wolf baby hunt issue, and am now current through the Alex/Lorna stuff.
Welcome to the real sisterhood, kryp.
krypt0nian
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Any great starting points prior to the ish I began with? One of the reasons I kept from reading was the huge number of issues the series enjoys.
Escape Goat
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Honestly, the first issue of PADs second run is a good a point as any. He lays groundwork for characters here and there that you might enjoy. And even at its worst X-Factor is still entertaining to read. Plus, you get to enjoy Layla and Madrox's back and forth when she was just a kid "who knows stuff".
krypt0nian
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So that was number 1? When does it jump numbering? How many issues in?
Thanks big time!
Escape Goat
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krypt0nian
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Ok cool. When does it start using the XF numbering?
Funny note, just found that I have the initial Maddrox mini, and never read it! Awesome!
Escape Goat
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I dont think I ever paid attention to it. So I'm not really sure. Probably when they brought back Havok and Polaris?
krypt0nian
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Okies. Just googled and it said after issue 50.
Tizoc
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I love AvX. it's stupid fun. AvX Vs on the other hand is just stupid.
So picked up DD and Secret Avengers this week. And this bad boy
This is so amazing
What the...I MUST HAVE THIS!
Get it. The art is just simply the most amazing thing ever. OGN of the year for sure so far. Gonna be hard to top. Ramon Perez is just incredible. Look at his art.
https://twitter.com/#!/theramonperez/status/193001449804926976/photo/1
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=12075
His work on the John Carter mini is amazing.
Speaking of people drawing amazing things, Ivan Reis continues to kill it. First that amazing MM spread in JL8 and now The Others spread in Aquaman 8. Soooooo good.
https://twitter.com/#!/theramonperez/status/193001449804926976/photo/1
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=12075
His work on the John Carter mini is amazing.
Speaking of people drawing amazing things, Ivan Reis continues to kill it. First that amazing MM spread in JL8 and now The Others spread in Aquaman 8. Soooooo good.
Tizoc
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Will check that mini out, thanks for the info.
Picked up Batman today, damn it's good. Some of the men tend to have cloned faces, but it's all good, the bat suit it looking great.
Aquaman finally came through. Thoroughly enjoying it; interesting to see a superhero that everyone just generally looks down upon. Plus Mera is awesome.
Aquaman finally came through. Thoroughly enjoying it; interesting to see a superhero that everyone just generally looks down upon. Plus Mera is awesome.
Link please on where to buy!ITT we buy batman statues?
Will be hard passing that up in the next May pre-orders.
Edit: NVM
SpiderJerusalem
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Falcon PUNCH! I'm trade waiting based on reviews of how good the artwork is, since it's basically an art book.
Big jump from "She is Dangerous" to the "She's a mutant". No you fuckhead, it's because a cosmic force that kills everything is going to inhabit her.
Supermanisdead
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Maybe, maybe not - especially if you've read yesterday's New Avengers. Right now they are taking her away before she's even done anything. "Protective custody" is BS. It's always the basis of every bad X-men future.
Reluctant-Hero
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Seriously. Cyclops' current characterization pushes me away from X-men comics.
Escape Goat
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Despite Cyclops going totally crazy I'm enjoying it. I was getting bored with the ineffectual Professor X and his X-Men against a "world that hates and fears them". The whole Utopia schism has provided a lot of interesting developments.
Spike Spiegel
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I think they've made him too stoic. Mutantkind is so close to coming back from the edge of extinction that Cyclops will do just about anything, sacrifice anything, to make that happen for his people and future generations. Yet they rarely reveal his personal levels of desperation, or just how stressed that kind of responsibility must make him, and he comes across as impassive and "villainous".
ViewtifulJC
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What the fuck?
Spike Spiegel
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Obviously Cap has decided that getting suckered twice in one day by an angry mutant is one too many, and took the initiative instead.
Angelus Errare
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My favorite thing about scenes with Wolverine. No one EVER breaks their hand punching his face, and he never breaks anyone else's skull when he swings at them.
Always been something I found humorous.
Always been something I found humorous.
The fact that Cyclops is the only on who seems to think bringing the Phoenix to Earth is a good idea kind of goes against him too. Even if he is desperate it doesn't make sense to bank everything on a cosmic entity known for destruction possessing Hope.
Got to get all the X-Men on the same side somehow.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
FF has some great stories to tell but my god do I yearn for an artist change. Drawing everyone with downs syndrome is not "a style", it is bad, Dragotta and you should feel bad.
Cyclops has graduated to ultra dick now he's also running PR bullshit. If he's so desperate to have Hope make out with the firebird of galactic death, why doesn't he teleport her off to some unpopulated planet for the big kiss rather than risk all of Earth?
Cyclops has graduated to ultra dick now he's also running PR bullshit. If he's so desperate to have Hope make out with the firebird of galactic death, why doesn't he teleport her off to some unpopulated planet for the big kiss rather than risk all of Earth?
Or how he gets knocked out multiple times by a single punch.
Only to take direct explosions, Omega's blasts to the face and knocks from somene like Juggs and keeps going.
DC said one of their goals with the New 52 was to not write for trades anymore, instead making more engaging, long form narratives.
Escape Goat
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I bet Cyclops has an ulterior motive for wanting the Phoenix. Maybe use it to restore mutants or...Jean.
I bet Cyclops has an ulterior motive for wanting the Phoenix. Maybe use it to restore mutants or...Jean.
does phoenix have the ability to restore powers?
krypt0nian
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I bet Cyclops has an ulterior motive for wanting the Phoenix. Maybe use it to restore mutants or...Jean.
Yup, called that one when this whole thing was announced.
Phoenix + Hope's power + (perhaps Scarlet Witch's ultimate sacrifice) = end to No More Mutants
ahh, with hopes power. i didnt put those together for some reason.
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