ViewtifulJC
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I found the Learning to Crawl part the most interesting story of ASM #1. Really interested in that one.
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COMICS! |OT| April 2014. Truly, there is no shame in continuing to read awful comics.
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To be fair, though I love his stuff and am confident he will deliver on the big payoff, the buildup has been a bit slow at times and like Jedeye mentioned, the singular issues have less heart than FF did.
That being said, the only 2 books I've read so far this week have been Avengers and New Avengers. Both worked very well and the ending to Avengers cements my belief he'll have knocked it out of the park once all is said and done. Hickman isn't a great character writer but he's probably the best guy around at managing lots of moving pieces.
Also, I'm totally counting on SHIELD to be meaningful in how everything in Avengers plays out.
Storm Chamber
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ASM #1 was a big ol bag of meh
ViewtifulJC
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Southern Bastards tho
Same here, I feel like they chose the perfect artist as well.
For real, I was expecting a bit more. I would've preferred the superior Sinister Six to be the villains of the issue instead.
ViewtifulJC
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He has that early Ditko Spider-Man down pat, and utilizes the dense 9 panel grid of the Lee/Ditko era in a unique way. He'll use large images like Spider-Man on the tight rope and he'll break them up through the borders to guide your eye to certain elements up and down the page.
I got a good feeling about that one next week
crimsonspider89
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Huh, Remender wrote a good funny issue in UA Annual.
Also had some mocking of current comic trends.
Also had some mocking of current comic trends.
I think it all depends on what each individual creative team wants to do. There's no real standard for how or if Image collects the material.
Heh. I'm not as down on it as you, but I find it pretty overrated. The art is amazing, but after 18 issues, I find the story pretty meandering and pointless, and I really dislike some of the forced edginess. I might grab the next volume to see what happens with the apparent
time jump
BenjaminBirdie
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Remender + Mojoverse = OMG I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS
slightconfuse
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Anyone get that Vertigo thing? Or Rai?
Rastafarian42
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Really liked that he used Mojo and his world for that since it's already suppose to be a satire of entertainment in today's world. Him and Jason Aaron have a really great handle on Mojo.
Oh, okay. Crisis averted.
Creator reputations don't create new readers in droves.
Memento Mori
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Bendis needs to remain on X-Men for years. I suspect Remender probably will pcik up another Avengers book though maybe Fraction too if he isn't giving up on mainstream cape books.
Thank god for that. Home to some of the worst trolling and fanboy drivel I've ever seen on the internet.
Speaking of schway, just brought a bunch of batman/justice league beyond comics.
Good.
A much needed change!
Maybe I'll actually frequent an actual comic book forum instead of hiding on GAF.
Memento Mori
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The X-board and Dan Slott's trolling were often entertaining but every single Scott Snyder thread devolved into Grant Morrison fanboys claiming Snyder was the worst Batman writer there has ever been.
Question about a detail in ultimate spider man.
Around the early double digit issues in the first octavius arc, when juatin hammer is giving his speech on his project, one of the interviewers in the crowd is eddie brock. They do not show his face, just a ble sleeve and hand, and he talks off panel.
This conflicts with issues 33-39, where brock is a college student at ESU, and hes not a reporter.
Was this just a continuity error because the series was at an early stage? Or is eddie working part time at the daily globe?
Around the early double digit issues in the first octavius arc, when juatin hammer is giving his speech on his project, one of the interviewers in the crowd is eddie brock. They do not show his face, just a ble sleeve and hand, and he talks off panel.
This conflicts with issues 33-39, where brock is a college student at ESU, and hes not a reporter.
Was this just a continuity error because the series was at an early stage? Or is eddie working part time at the daily globe?
Spike Spiegel
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I posted 6 times the entire life of my account there, all pretty much on the same subject (one guess). Even lurking there just to read "discussions" was a chore.
Supermanisdead
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CBR got rebooted lol. The X-boards were PRIME reading material. I'll miss them 
I can't wait for next month.
They'll be going into a fight where they're outgunned and yet have already seen. If they're going to survive then they need to take advantage of that and I wonder how they'll do it.
ViewtifulJC
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oh shit, the whole forum got rebooted
#1 releases on July 30th... happy birthday to me!
Supermanisdead
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cant wait for the gaf reboot so i can steal a mod's name
Hopefully the story matches the beautiful art.
Edit: I'm going to steal Grandharriers name and then get it permabamned. That'll show him.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah..... I just saw that too. I don't know how to feel about that honestly.
Serpentine
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Tyrant Rave
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Was it Mighty Avengers? I think I saw that he was in thatWent to buy Silver Surfer #1 from the store today and they were all out
I seen Blade on the cover of a book today in the new releases. I can't for the life of me remember which one. Please someone help. I love Blade
slightconfuse
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Southern. Bastards was pretty great first issue
Deadly class was great, love the coloring
Deadly class was great, love the coloring
May not be a must-read series, but I really enjoy it.
Then again my first experience into the comic world was pre-Lemire Green Arrow, so everything seems great in comparison.
From the CBR article.
"Unfortunately, what happened next was unacceptable -- so-called "fans" around the Internet, on various message boards and social media, including the CBR Forums, attacked Janelle personally, threatening her with rape and assault. These same "fans" found her e-mail, home address and other personal information, and used it to harass and terrorize her, including an attempted hacking of her bank account.
All over a comic book cover critique. Just think about that for a second."
WHAT.THE.FUCK.
Some people can't be serious. How you not look at yourself while doing any of those things and think "wow. I am a piece of shit"
"Unfortunately, what happened next was unacceptable -- so-called "fans" around the Internet, on various message boards and social media, including the CBR Forums, attacked Janelle personally, threatening her with rape and assault. These same "fans" found her e-mail, home address and other personal information, and used it to harass and terrorize her, including an attempted hacking of her bank account.
All over a comic book cover critique. Just think about that for a second."
WHAT.THE.FUCK.
Some people can't be serious. How you not look at yourself while doing any of those things and think "wow. I am a piece of shit"
Serpentine
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I don't mean to generalize, but... comic book fans
The great thing about GAF, I think, is that it has a giant off-topic section. It may originally be a gaming forum, but that's just a [significant] piece of it now. So we may have little niches here and there, but it's a far cry from the insular, sheltered communities elsewhere.
Wait, what's Bendis got to do with this?
Wait, what's Bendis got to do with this?
Supermanisdead
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Outside the X-Books forum, CBR was a cesspit of socially inept, out-of-touch wackjobs. I used to get into arguments with psychotic Black Panther fans every week and various users who wholeheartedly believed stupid shit like Songbird being an A-class character.
X-Books forum embraced the inherent silliness of superhero comics and that made the wackos even madder.
X-Books forum embraced the inherent silliness of superhero comics and that made the wackos even madder.
Probably over a Harley cover, those fans are crazy.
Spike Spiegel
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It was the Teen Titans cover.
Yeah, I used to read that forum on a regular basis but the whole Miles Morales thing really turned me off, kind of how gender/race swap threads on gaf drive me crazy.
Don't get on the wrong side of comic/gaming fandom!
People need to remember that part of it being a hobby is that it doesn't dominate your life, it's something you do for fun (& money in my case).
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