Supermanisdead
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Wolverine and the X-Men is crazy good.
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COMICS! April 2012 |OT| It's a new month? Already?!
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Wolverine and the X-Men is crazy good.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Amazon.com delivery brightened my morning:
One of the best creative teams ever, no doubt
and the Gambit thing is probably a different thing then the Fraction/Aja comic, so now I won't have to buy it, yeeeeeeeeeees
Animal Man and Swamp Thing are the most consistently praised of the New 52 books and they are awesome. So awesome.
I'm not sure how widespread its critical acclaim has been, but the first 7 issues of Demon Knights might be my favorite story arc from the entire New 52 reboot and it needs sales help so fucking buy it!
If you were looking specifically for cape/tights superhero stuff, The Flash is the only book whose story and art has been consistently impressive from start to current.
Some would say Aquaman is great too, but I don't find the character or any of the storylines so far interesting, but Ivan Reis is murdering the art on that book something insane.
As for Marvel, Yes, Daredevil is amazing. Buy it.
Wolverine and the X-men is still one of my favorite ongoing superhero comics right now, despite my dislike of the "main" artist on the series, Chris Bachalo. I still recommend the series wholeheartedly.
The other Remender books, Venom and Secret Avengers are both amazing. Buy them.
You didn't ask about non-DC/Marvel but buy Saga god damn it. Second issue drops tomorrow.
If this turns out to be a Gambit is a thief book with absolutely no Rogue, im down
Sweet, wasn't sure when issue 2 was coming. Saga is the shit.
notworksafe
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Easiest book for me to avoid in a long time.
ha ha! wheres that longshot ongoing bandit?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Still waiting on Benjamin Birdie to write it
Reluctant-Hero
Member
I seriously need to catch up on the following
- Aquaman
- Animal Man
- Swamp Thing
- Demon Knights
Thankfully DC is awesome with discounting their digital "back issues" by $1.00
I really want to get into Wolverine & X-Men, but Marvel's $3.99 pricing disgusts me, especially as I'm a digital reader. They don't even discount the back issues. SMH.
Reluctant-Hero
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How many issues are in this?
parrotbeak
Member
I'll probably pick it up too but would wait for TPB. Although if the hardcover is $13.59, how much cheaper would the TPB be?
Escape Goat
Member
Longshot is best kept under the protection of Peter David in X-Factor.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
GAMBIT!!!! Now Marvel just needs to accept my Protector ongoing submission and I'm set. Saga? Tomorrow is all about Peter Panzerfaust issue 3.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
But it also lists 112 pages. That's 16 pages an issue. Something is wrong, either the page count or the issue count.
parrotbeak
Member
Oh ya. Hmm, well, collections are usually around 5 issues? That would be about right on the page count.
Spike Spiegel
Member
wait, can matt "see" words?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
If he, uh... touches them...
Escape Goat
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TheDarkKnight774
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Animal Man
Swamp Thing
Demon Knights
Birds of Prey
Batman
Batwoman
Others that are pretty good
Suicide squad
Flash
Aquaman
notworksafe
Member
Seconded!
I recall reading somewhere Steve Skroce is on a comeback tour..a man can dream.
krypt0nian
Banned
I'd add Red Hood, I, Vampire, Teen Titans/Superboy, Nightwing & Wonder Woman to that list.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Yea I forgot WW. Its no Rucka WW (best run ever) but its interesting
I vampire I'm behind but it's pretty good. I do like the cool Jae Lee like art
Night wing is in the avg camp with batgirl for me. I read but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
All Star Western is awesome.
Other good ones:
Animal Man
Justice League Dark
Resurrection Man (may not be long for this world though)
Frankenstein (this is the Doom Patrol of the New 52)
I, Vampire is much better than you think.
Loved OMAC, but that's done now.
Justice League, Batman & Aquaman are good for straight ahead pure bred DC superheroics. Batman is easily the best written of those, though Johns is finally getting some traction with his classic world building in the last issue of Aquaman.
Other good ones:
Animal Man
Justice League Dark
Resurrection Man (may not be long for this world though)
Frankenstein (this is the Doom Patrol of the New 52)
I, Vampire is much better than you think.
Loved OMAC, but that's done now.
Justice League, Batman & Aquaman are good for straight ahead pure bred DC superheroics. Batman is easily the best written of those, though Johns is finally getting some traction with his classic world building in the last issue of Aquaman.
Spike Spiegel
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BlueScrote
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Pretty much. I can't wait for people to throw this in the face of that quote about a 616/Ultimate crossover meaning they have officially run out of ideas.
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.
Terrible. Scarlet Spider has been a far better spider-book than the absolutely glacial pace of Ultimate. Entire Ultimate line needs culling if clinging to 616 crossover coattails for more exposure is the level of desperation its reached.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
This is why you should never say never. I'm looking forward to it very much though, USM is brilliant and I'm wondering what this will mean for Miles and the UU in general. Basically, anything by Pichelli is good by me.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Red Hood is a A-Tier C-List book, if you know what I mean. For a shitty book that has absolutely nothing to do with anything and will not change your life one iota, it's pretty good.
krypt0nian
Banned
The Ultimate Universe is as pointless as a second asshole now.
Pretty much. Kinda hoping ultimate reed wipes the universe clean and they start over.
Why the hate? I'm enjoying it so far.
Why? I like the idea of two different spider-mans in two different universes. Morales just needs to build up his supporting cast and enemies, you cannot do all of that in just one book.
I'd love to see Morales, Parker and O'Hara together in the same book or video game.
Seems like i see his same post or hear this same comment anytime Marvel does some new storyline or something.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I don't think so. I think you can set alerts, so you're notified when a new issue comes out though, which is very similar. I mean, subscriptions are usually only useful for making sure a book doesn't sell out before you get your grubby mitts on it. No danger of the in the digital age. Of course, maybe you were angling for the discount - Marvel want me to tell you where to stick that idea, but I think that's very rude of them...
Its not really anything to do with the spidermen in particular, but the entirety of the universe. Killing off a majority of the mutants in the gruesome ways only a grief stricken madman can, the complete nonsense that destroyed the fantastic four as a team(which was my favorite book in the block) and the weak ultimates vs avengers storyplot just makes me long for the earlier days of the ultimate universe(which is sad because I used to shit on the line pretty hard.) Its amazing how bad ultimatum screwed things up.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Now that Hickman is gone, i can officially drop the Ultimate universe and be done with it forever.
And I'll be sure to ignore this thing as well.
And I'll be sure to ignore this thing as well.
Mac the KNife
Member
"Joe Quesada has reiterated his earlier claim that the two universes will not cross over as that would signify that Marvel had 'officially run out of ideas'. "
Can't wait to hear the spin on this.
That sucks. I would like a cheaper subscription plan that would automaticlly download into my ipad.
I never really bought into the ultimates universe, i was a bit bitter about the 2099 universe comics ending but the new spider-man got me to actually start buying the comic.
Supermanisdead
Member
One of them is a zombie?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
God, who gives a fuck. People love to crucify public figures on shit they said ages ago as if that shit matters. If this ends up being a good story, and this has all the potential to, who cares. I'd love to see Peter Parker counsel Miles Morales at this point in his "career".
But oh no Joe Quesada said something like seven years ago.
Dear lord.
But oh no Joe Quesada said something like seven years ago.
Dear lord.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Brahs any place where I could purchase Peter Panzerfaust issue 1 besides Amazon?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
This story will be bad because Bendis is writing it, not because JoeQ said some shit 7 years ago. As if people can't change their minds in 7 years.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Ultimate Spidey is still as good as it ever was. It's the one book he hasn't destroyed.
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