krypt0nian
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COMICS! |OT| April 2013. Trapped in humorless world, Prankster decides to end it all.
- Thread starter Spike Spiegel
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Bow down.
I think these are really, really good:
Thor: God of Thunder
New Avengers
Uncanny X-Men
Avengers
All New X-Men
Wonder Woman
Snapshot
Five Ghosts: The Haunting of Fabian Gray
Skullkickers
FF
Uncanny Avengers
Nowhere Men
The Black Beetle
Auron_Kale
Member
Gotcha. Any detection skills I had at that point were shot due to it being like nearly 12:30 in the morning.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
It wasn't cancelled, it was just on hiatus. Anyone reading the book understood that.
But I agree, there was certainly a sentiment from the less intelligent members of the comics community that the book was out-of-continuity and I think that hurt it. It's a shame because it's been consistently really good, especially when building from the rest of the run. Where Hickman is getting mad respect for his holistic FF run, Morrison should get the same praise for his Batman, it's incredible. He's not only introduced more new characters and concepts than most entire decades of Batman comics, but he's also created a quite pleasing and watertight secret history of Gotham and Bruce's life, from the time travelling tinkering in Return of Bruce Wayne to how he elegantly tied the Kathy Kane Batwoman back into the fabric of the mythos and then going on to tell the greatest Talia story that's ever existed. DC really needs to put of out three volume omnibus set of the entire run, it would be glorious.
I wonder if attention span has something to do with it. Hickman finished his FF run in 3 years. Morrison will have been on Batman for 7 when he wraps up.
Finished the first three issues of my 13 issue Fatale stack. I'm liking it, enough to recommend people check it out, but something about it doesn't quite put it at the top of my reading list. I don't find Jo to be that interesting, at least not enough to make up for the vague/mysterious angle that the book dwells on for so many pages. She's not as intriguing as Brubaker intends her to be.
fallingdove
Member
Wasn't a big fan of Five Ghosts but agree with everything else on your list.
Uncanny Avengers #6 was fucking incredible, probably my favourite single issue of all the comics I've read from Marvel NOW! so far. Acuna's art was absolutely fantastic and the dialogue between Apocalypse and a younger, naive Thor was brilliant. Really good set-up for this new arc.
Rastafarian42
Member
Can't wait to pick it up !
slightconfuse
Banned
Uncanny x-men reveils who of the orignal 5 is joining the xavier school from the last issue of ANXM.. in case some of you are not reading ANXM and uncanny
Vermillion
Banned
I liked Avengers and Wolverine today.
Auron_Kale
Member
Awesome. Separately read, the books are surprisingly good but together, they're amazing.
I agree. This is closer to what I was expecting from the start. I wasn't a fan of the first "getting the team together" arc, but I have really enjoyed the last couple of issues.
Question about Uncanny X-Men 5:
What is all of this about Emma Frost being the Cuckoo's mom? When was that revealed?
Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
All the cover artists got together om a theme for this week's covers. Since im 95% digital now I don't have to hide them from my special lady.
slightconfuse
Banned
Glad i dropped Batman in favor of Batman and Robin.
B&R 19 was GODDDDDDDDLIKE. serously best comic this week for sure and havent read the rest of my books yet. Best bat book, get on board
B&R 19 was GODDDDDDDDLIKE. serously best comic this week for sure and havent read the rest of my books yet. Best bat book, get on board
B&RR 19 was pretty good. It's a shame Red Robin didn't get more panel time, he needs his own book.
Issue 20 is B&RH, should be good, especially considering what Bruce tried to pull in this issue.
Freezasaurus
Member
- Hawkeye was pretty fantastic, as usual.
- I liked UXM as well, but it wasn't as stellar as last issue. But we're seeing the beginnings of Magik struggling with (presumably)
.Dormammu
- Walking Dead was fine. I'm getting a bit wishy-washy on the book. It hasn't really had any Earth-shattering plot developments in a while, and has mostly been mildly entertaining at best. Step it up, Kirkman.
- Fearless Defenders was a fun read this issue. And that plot-twist at the end!
slightconfuse
Banned
last page of Avengers should be familar to New avengers readers!. fun seeing how its all coming together
Spike Spiegel
Member
Not really a spoiler. It was revealed in the Phoenix: Warsong miniseries a number of years ago that Emma was their "mother."
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
Apparently Saga will be uploaded after all. Comixology is trying to shift the blame on themselves.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
Hawkeye was awesome, and I'm really digging UXM. I take it the conversation between Scott and Logan was done in WatXM?
Freezasaurus
Member
For fucks sake. Will people grow up? Anyone with internet access sees "worse" shit every day than a bit of jizz on a comic book page. Can everyone stop pretending to be offended?
That said, Saga was great as usual. Can't wait for the next issue, even though it's a few months away.
Is she some sort of psychic mother or were the cuckoos grown from her DNA or something?
Also, while we are talking about back history I missed:
Uncanny Avengers 6
when was Baron Mordo killed?
Spike Spiegel
Member
I don't have the book in front of me, but as I recall they were grown from her eggs or something? It turned out they were grown as a vessel to contain the Phoenix, and there was an underground lab with hundreds of cuckoos, and it was a plot by sublime maybe? Like I said, it's not handy so I'm having difficulty recalling.
The story's not very good; it was an unnecessary sequel to Endsong.
I think I'm going to write a few words about this book after exams are done because I definitely get where you're coming from. I think the series is great though, and it's Brubaker and Philips doing something very interesting and very different from some of their other stuff.
Keep reading, even if you don't love the first 10 issues, 11-13 are fucking fantastic.
Sadly i didn't order Fatale 14 through dcbs and when i requested it to be added to my order they couldn't because it was sold out through their distributor. Xo. After i read 1-13 i'll either sell those issues and trade wait if i want more, or sell those issues and pre-order 15 onwards. Or just abandon it :O
Also, Carnage USA is a good book on Marvel Unlimited.
thecouncil
Banned
Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles is the best thing I'm reading though I, admittedly, don't read a lot.
Hawkeye was awesome butthat last page broke my heart. Grills...
Who's the bad guy on the last page??
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
Rebought Lil Gotham in print for that Steph and Cass on the cover
Freezasaurus
Member
I haven't read any of the Avengers books in a good while. Which one is basically the flagship book? And since the answer may be different, which current Avengers book is considered the best?
Auron_Kale
Member
I'd actually say that both Avengers & New Avengers together as they work like how ANXM and UXM does. Uncanny seems to be a bit divisive (I may pick up the trade to see how things have gone) but check out some pages to see if you like it.
Freezasaurus
Member
Did they restart the numbering of both titles when Marvel NOW started?
Auron_Kale
Member
Yep. So Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers start with #1, as does Remender's Uncanny Avengers.
I'd like to know this as well, I was confused by that unless it hasn't happened yet
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.
Hickman is beginning to lose me with Avengers, its going into a sort of place where the Avengers just show up in a Hickman original story and I'm supposed to still think this is an Avengers comic. By comparison, Avengers Assemble feels like the mainline Avengers comic. New Avengers is good and seems more Hickman's thang, but eh. Remender is on the cusp of doing more interesting things with Uncanny Avengers too. Too much avengin'.
Age of Ultron makes a mockery of any current day Marvel continuity, for obvious reasons, but it should have been shelved really. Isn't doing much of note, confusing matters.
On Uncanny X-Men, I'll stick around for the upcoming gorgeous Magick art issue, but this book is fairly trash. Bachalo not bothering to colour in eye-whites is just not fucking professional enough to warrant me hurling money his fucking way, and all of Bendis' new students are fucking terrible characters that are all the same Bendisites.
Hawkeye made me say "shit, NO!" out loud over a totally tertiary character. Seems the jokes have stopped and the shit has gotten real.
Age of Ultron makes a mockery of any current day Marvel continuity, for obvious reasons, but it should have been shelved really. Isn't doing much of note, confusing matters.
On Uncanny X-Men, I'll stick around for the upcoming gorgeous Magick art issue, but this book is fairly trash. Bachalo not bothering to colour in eye-whites is just not fucking professional enough to warrant me hurling money his fucking way, and all of Bendis' new students are fucking terrible characters that are all the same Bendisites.
Hawkeye made me say "shit, NO!" out loud over a totally tertiary character. Seems the jokes have stopped and the shit has gotten real.
Rastafarian42
Member
Uncanny Avengers 6 was fucking boss it's amazing what a great artist can do to spike up the quality of a book. This has finally started living up to the promise. Oh and Daniel Acuna is fucking amazing.
Spike Spiegel
Member
Okay, I just got home and breezed through it again really quick, and my recollection of the story was pretty accurate. The Stepford Cuckoos were revealed to be Weapon XIV, created by Dr. John Sublime as part of the Weapon Plus program. Emma Frost's eggs were harvested without her knowledge or consent, and grown into a thousand psychic daughters of which five were released into the real world, and the others kept in stasis chambers in The World. They were designed to be a psychic weapon capable of killing anyone with a thought, with the five acting as a conduit and focal point for the remainders' power. At the end of the story, Sublime tries to use their hive-mind to contain and control the power of a Phoenix fragment that had taken up residence in Celeste, but Celeste uses the Phoenix's power to destroy her sisters then split it amongst herself, Mindee and Phoebe.
Oh, and here's what I picked up today:
Marvel Comics
Avengers #9
Fearless Defenders #3
Hawkeye #9
Thor God of Thunder #7
Uncanny Avengers #6
Uncanny X-Men #4 (peeked ahead to the ending,
so glad it's not Jean
Wolverine #2
Image Comics
Sex #2 (if it wasn't obvious after the first issue, this book is pretty much
"what if Batman retired?"
Dark Horse Comics
Sledgehammer '44 #2
IDW Publishing
Rocketeer Hollywood Horror #3
Only flipped through a few books so far, nothing read.
Auron_Kale
Member
Nice to hear that UA picks up so I'll probably pick up the trade and check it out. Could not stand the first 2 issues at all...
TheKaeptain
Banned
n/m bought
Spike Spiegel
Member
Ephemeris
Member
BR wasn't always this way, but boy was it great these past few months.
B&R 19 was too good. It's unsustainable!
It's been a great week for the Bat.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Yeah I had to go through the browser. For some reason the it wasn't showing up in my app.
EDIT: Batman and B&R were both fucking great. Saga was the shit too.
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