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October starts Marvel's relaunch from the top down. It's not a reboot, but a creative shift on a lot of books along with new starting points while keeping continuity ( outside of whenever people make deals with the devil that negates their marriage).

First up and the only book in October, much like DC brought out Justice League #1 first to kick off the new 52, belongs to Uncanny Avengers by Rick Remender and John Cassaday. If you want to check out the Marvel Universe, this is the time, and November brings more revamped titles.

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The rest of October at a glance:

DC's New 52 continues, Rotworld is the highlight as the event/crossover finally starts after more than a year worth of buildup.

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Bedlam #1

"Fillmore Press was once Madder Red, a homicidal maniac and criminal overlord who terrorized the town of Bedlam for years. Then he got better. This is what happens next.

A double-sized introduction to a blood-soaked cityscape of murder, mayhem, and mystery by NICK SPENCER (MORNING GLORIES, THIEF OF THIEVES) and RILEY ROSSMO (REBEL BLOOD, GREEN WAKE)!"

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Cyberforce #1 is supposed to be free...so....maybe that will be good?

Halloween Eve one-shot by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder

"HALLOWEEN EVE is a 40-page (32 story pages plus other content) full-color comic, due out in October 2012 to celebrate Halloween. It's a stand-alone, self-contained tale of magic and adventure geared toward teen and adult audiences. "

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Dark Horse:

BPRD 1948 #1 of 5 kicks off. Do you like BPRD/Hellboy and want to see some giant monsters?

The Nazi occult bureau threatened to destroy the peace that followed the end of World War II. One year after the war, Professor Bruttenholm, guardian of the child Hellboy, enlisted a special task force to connect the dots between a series of massacres and a mad vampire nobleman. Now the B.P.R.D. launches an investigation of an atomic-fueled space-travel experiment that's apparently unleashed horrific monsters in the Utah desert.
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Marvel random stuff that random people will buy

A Plus X #1...Jeph Loeb.. and others....a team up book with an avenger and x-man and shenanigans happen. Buy at own risk.

Avx Consequences, all five issues in one month so you don't think of the consequences of spending money on it.

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Marvel stuff i forgot because it didn't have a #1 next to the name: Red She Hulk #58. Looks promising, check it out!

RED SHE-HULK #58
JEFF PARKER (w) • CARLO PAGULAYAN & WELLINGTON ALVES (a)
Cover by CARLO PAGULAYAN
Variant Cover by GREG HORN
Variant Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
ALL-NEW ONGOING!
• The Earth’s strongest female set on a path of destruction!!!
• Her enemies? EVERY POWERED BEING IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!!!
32 PGS./T+ …$2.99
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Soooooooooooo Are you buying into Marvel Now? Is DC New 52 still considered "new" or just "nu", which isn't really a word? Have you finally conceded that Image is your future and you want a Walking Dead/Revival crossover? POST! And make sure to cover up spoilers.
 
In memoriam: X-Men. We hardly knew ye.

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R.I.P.

If there's no room for you in Marvel Now, hopefully there will be in Marvel Later.
 
Maybe the 90s X-Men will travel through time to present day to meet the teenage versions and current ones?
 
Getting simian beast back would go a long way in restoring my good will.
 
Bleedingcool morrisoncon tidbit summary of things that are totally true:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/10/01/new-pages-for-absolute-final-crisis-seaguy-vol-3-before-multiversity-and-two-issues-of-all-star-batman-written/

standouts:

"There will be 10 new pages in Absolute Final Crisis, a huge battle scene formerly cut. New Final Crisis pages feature “Captain Carrot fighting zombies” etc.

All that happened in Batman Inc vol 1 “still exists in our heads” – Grant Morrison

Jim Lee “still has hope” for All Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder Volume 2. Frank Miller has scripted two issues.

We may see Seaguy vol 3 before we see Multiversity

Grant Morrison is not happy with the Red concept being part of Animal Man as it had made him a second rate Swamp Thing

We will see Dr. Hurt again in Morrison’s Batman comics

JH3 is done drawing Batwoman in a few issues? It’s sad, but onward and upward. He will continue writing

Chris Burnham’s Nixon’s Pals coming out in a hardcover color edition this year or next!"

No more JHW3 art on Batwoman would be sad.
 
Remender is so god damned good - I can't NOT buy Uncanny Avengers.

Hopefully he ties up his ending of UXF really well so I don't have to keep reading.

I also hope I don't have to read AvX to understand what's going on, though.
 
Nesotenso said:
Remender is a solid writer and plotter. All the Avengers books with Hickman and Remender are what I am looking most forward to.
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I'm getting it because I enjoy Uncanny X-Force. I also want to get that Fear Agent library edition coming out in December.
 
sazabirules said:
I also want to get that Fear Agent library edition coming out in December.
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ZOMG do it. Fear Agent is one of the most glorious Sci Fi tales ever written.

If you thought UXF was a testament to Remender's plotting skill... you ain't seen nothin yet.
 
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
So is there not a book called uncanny xmen or xmen now?
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Legacy ending too.

To be fair, I've been saying that they need to trim the fat on the entire line of X-books since I got back into comics last year. I'm really kinda only butthurt that they aren't using the Uncanny X-Men name anymore but I guess it's kind of fitting that it dies with Cyclops.
 
Yay more comics! Here's my buy plan for this month:

Oct 3rd:
Action Comics #13
Amazing Spider-Man #695
AvX#12
Uncanny X-Force #32

Oct 10th:
Batman #13
Uncanny Avengers #1

Oct 17th:
Amazing Spider-Man #696
Venom #26
BPRD 1948 #1
Justice League #13
Supergirl #13
Sword of Sorcery #1

Oct 24th:
Talon #1
Invincible #96

Oct 31st:
Action Comics Annual #1
Aquaman #13
A+X #1
Happy #2

Expensive month with new series and an annual D:
 
Does anybody feel like John Cassaday's art on Uncanny Avengers looks a little bellow his work quality on Astonishing X-Men?
 
distantmantra said:
I don't read comics anymore and only follow X-men news from threads on GAF. What ultimately happened in AvX?
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AvX full event spoilers below:



Hope was on the run from everybody.

Wolverine flew her to the moon and sold her out to the Avengers.

Avengers had a plan to blow up the Phoenix from the moon with a ridiculous mech suit

Phoenix instead split into five parts and took over "The Phoenix Five" which was Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik

The P5 were creating a utopia on earth, making it safe for mutant kind and generally righting wrongs and doing good by everybody.

In reality they were up to some real mean shit, like trapping Avengers in a "hell on earth" prison that Magik made and generally being agro and shit.

Namor attacked (Wakanda I think?) and got his ass kicked, dispersing his portion of the Phoenix power to the other 4 remaning P5 members.

Meanwhile Colossus and Magik got beat, I forgot how

Hope went with the Avengers to Karateland and learned how to Kung Fu punch motherfuckers to the moon, which she demonstrated on Cyclops.

Then in a final confrontation, Chuck Xavier (even though he had nothing to do with the entire event up til AvX 11 iirc), the rest of the Avengers and the X-Men that had seen the light about how the Phoenix was corrupting its hosts went to Utopia where Cyclops trying to get all of the Phoenix power choked out Emma then murdered Chuck.

In the final page of AvX Cyclops is the Dark Phoenix.

Haven't read spoilers for AvX 12, but they are in one of the last few pages of the September thread.

Did I miss anything?
 
LiQuid! said:
AvX full event spoilers below:



Hope was on the run from everybody.

Wolverine flew her to the moon and sold her out to the Avengers.

Avengers had a plan to blow up the Phoenix from the moon with a ridiculous mech suit

Phoenix instead split into five parts and took over "The Phoenix Five" which was Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik

The P5 were creating a utopia on earth, making it safe for mutant kind and generally righting wrongs and doing good by everybody.

In reality they were up to some real mean shit, like trapping Avengers in a "hell on earth" prison that Magik made and generally being agro and shit.

Namor attacked (Wakanda I think?) and got his ass kicked, dispersing his portion of the Phoenix power to the other 4 remaning P5 members.

Meanwhile Colossus and Magik got beat, I forgot how

Hope went with the Avengers to Karateland and learned how to Kung Fu punch motherfuckers to the moon, which she demonstrated on Cyclops.

Then in a final confrontation, Chuck Xavier (even though he had nothing to do with the entire event up til AvX 11 iirc), the rest of the Avengers and the X-Men that had seen the light about how the Phoenix was corrupting its hosts went to Utopia where Cyclops trying to get all of the Phoenix power choked out Emma then murdered Chuck.

In the final page of AvX Cyclops is the Dark Phoenix.

Haven't read spoilers for AvX 12, but they are in one of the last few pages of the September thread.

Did I miss anything?
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nah thats all of it pretty much, is gladiator out of the hospital yet?
 
DonasaurusRex said:
nah thats all of it pretty much, is gladiator out of the hospital yet?
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Pretty sure he already packed up Kid Gladiator and left the planet if I'm remembering one of the last few WatXM's correctly.
 
Just a heads up, pretty sure that BPRD cover is just one of the Mignola Monster Variants they've been doing all year. They're not actually fighting a giant mantis, I don't think.
 
Colossus and Magik were defeated by the Amazing Spiderman psychology which convinced them not to kill him, but, instead, to punch each other down.
It is my favorite AvX issue
 
LiQuid! said:
Legacy ending too.

To be fair, I've been saying that they need to trim the fat on the entire line of X-books since I got back into comics last year. I'm really kinda only butthurt that they aren't using the Uncanny X-Men name anymore but I guess it's kind of fitting that it dies with Cyclops.
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So is the main xmen book the one that bendis is writing with the 05? That seems kinda odd. Like a concept that you would use for a miniseries not the flagship book.
 
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
So is the main xmen book the one that bendis is writing with the 05? That seems kinda odd. Like a concept that you would use for a miniseries not the flagship book.
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Marvel would love for you to think so, but Wolverine and the X-Men is going to be the only one worth reading.
 
Now that you mention it I do remember hearing that. Who is going to be writing it? Age of X and Lost Legions were pretty good arcs, but that's Mike Carey doing good things with questionable material...
 
LiQuid! said:
AvX full event spoilers below:



Hope was on the run from everybody.

Wolverine flew her to the moon and sold her out to the Avengers.

Avengers had a plan to blow up the Phoenix from the moon with a ridiculous mech suit

Phoenix instead split into five parts and took over "The Phoenix Five" which was Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik

The P5 were creating a utopia on earth, making it safe for mutant kind and generally righting wrongs and doing good by everybody.

In reality they were up to some real mean shit, like trapping Avengers in a "hell on earth" prison that Magik made and generally being agro and shit.

Namor attacked (Wakanda I think?) and got his ass kicked, dispersing his portion of the Phoenix power to the other 4 remaning P5 members.

Meanwhile Colossus and Magik got beat, I forgot how

Hope went with the Avengers to Karateland and learned how to Kung Fu punch motherfuckers to the moon, which she demonstrated on Cyclops.

Then in a final confrontation, Chuck Xavier (even though he had nothing to do with the entire event up til AvX 11 iirc), the rest of the Avengers and the X-Men that had seen the light about how the Phoenix was corrupting its hosts went to Utopia where Cyclops trying to get all of the Phoenix power choked out Emma then murdered Chuck.

In the final page of AvX Cyclops is the Dark Phoenix.

Haven't read spoilers for AvX 12, but they are in one of the last few pages of the September thread.

Did I miss anything?
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Breaks my heart to hear that this is what the X-Men have become. I used to be about as hardcore an X fan as you could get. By X-Men #3, the dream was over. OG Claremont, a toast to you.
 
BlackBanditSho said:
Breaks my heart to hear that this is what the X-Men have become. I used to be about as hardcore an X fan as you could get. By X-Men #3, the dream was over. OG Claremont, a toast to you.
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I love Claremont. I cherish all my Essentials of that era. I still think contempo comics are boss as dang.
 
Nothings ever going to top claremont because of the way he loved those characters and basically dedicated his entire life to that book but there have been plenty of good xmen stories since his original run (some even done ny claremont himself, contrary to what the internet will have you believe)
 
sillymonkey321 said:
JH3 is done drawing Batwoman in a few issues? It’s sad, but onward and upward. He will continue writing.

No more JHW3 art on Batwoman would be sad.
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Tbh I kinda wish he would stop writing Batwoman too, it's a shadow of its former self without Rucka at the helm. Rucka's stuff fell more on the side of the military with a dash of supernatural, whereas JH's Batwoman has been mired in a long boring occult plot that is seemingly going nowhere. And now JH3 is going to do Sandman with an actual brilliant writer worthy of his artistic calibre, so it's a win win.
 
Morrison's New X-Men is still the pinnacle of the franchise for me. The Claremont/Byrne works are groundbreaking and classic, but for me a little too dated. Morrison's stuff feels just as innovative but also readable.
 
Whats been really frustrating is that X-Books, particularly Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny X-Men, and Wolverine and the X-Men, were all fucking fantastic post-Schism and before AvsX. Post AvsX only one remains, and is the one thats been the worst during AvsX.

Maybe Uncanny Avengers will be good, but I'm not sold on the concept at all and Remender has kind of been doing the exact same UXF formula to Venom and Secret Avengers and its worn a little thin.
 
BlackBanditSho said:
Breaks my heart to hear that this is what the X-Men have become. I used to be about as hardcore an X fan as you could get. By X-Men #3, the dream was over. OG Claremont, a toast to you.
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Love Claremont, but there's been a lot of good stuff since then. Marvel just likes to ruin it periodically.

I love how X-writers always pull of amazing shit in spite of hamfisted editorial management.
 
Pie and Beans said:
Whats been really frustrating is that X-Books, particularly Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny X-Men, and Wolverine and the X-Men, were all fucking fantastic post-Schism and before AvsX. Post AvsX only one remains, and is the one thats been the worst during AvsX.

Maybe Uncanny Avengers will be good, but I'm not sold on the concept at all and Remender has kind of been doing the exact same UXF formula to Venom and Secret Avengers and its worn a little thin.
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I hear you, for sure (your Secret Avengers obsvs, especially), but I think I'd be okay if good X went away for a while. It's like post-New X-Men. Remember that? Yuck!! But at least we got these fantastic, well-contained runs, which also, now that I think about it, fit together really well. UXM built off of UXF developments (Tabula Rasa) exceedingly well. It's possible that that same attitude and approach could just end up on the Avengers side of things, with the same creators working there.
 
Im so glad Claremont's getting the love again. For too long he was shit on, and he gave us so many amazing things.

There's nothing like his X-Mythos. <3
 
BlackBanditSho said:
Breaks my heart to hear that this is what the X-Men have become. I used to be about as hardcore an X fan as you could get. By X-Men #3, the dream was over. OG Claremont, a toast to you.
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I would argue that X-Men currently are still better than pretty much anything Marvel puts out, I have been a big X-Men fan for years and still enjoy them more than Avengers which has got the main push for the last couple years.

I am interested to see where the new books take the X-Men.
 
Claremont is solely responsible for like all the best shit that has ever happened in X-Men continuity, but having just read the first volume of the Uncanny X-Men Marvel Masterworks, man that shit reads awkward to a guy that didn't read a lot of pre-90s comic boom comics.
 
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