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COMICS! |OT| August 2014. Infinite universes, or just fifty-two? Thanos.
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Freezasaurus
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This is why I don't read Millar, folks.
Why is that? Because he's a terrible writer?
BumblebeeCody
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Started the Rocket Raccoon series. THIS IS HYPE! The art style. My oh my the art style is incredible.
It's Frank Millar. The guys an overrated loser anyway. He's like the Ubisoft of comic book writers.
It's Frank Millar. The guys an overrated loser anyway. He's like the Ubisoft of comic book writers.
Sibersk Esto
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That's the funny thing to me. His Superman Adventures run is so good. Clever, exciting, accessible, morally upstanding; the prototypical ongoing for the Man of Steel. My favorite issue was actually the one where Bruce Wayne got kidnapped by the Mad Hatter and was gonna shoot him on Live TV unless Batman showed up, revealed his secret identity, and gave him his cowl(hat collector, don't you know). Course WE know Bruce is Batman, but dramatic irony and all that. So Superman has to fit-in with Gotham scare tactics, which he's no good at.
But eventually Supes does say the day, in a totally Superman kind of way once they track the escaped Hatter to the sewers
Superman, who loves everybody even the psychologically troubled, understands and appeals to their wants and needs in a non-violent humanistic manner. What a smart and compassionate way to resolve this situation! No edgy fisticuffs or dark angst here, just a really well done superhero book by a writer who clearly understands the traditions of how these things work.
He doesn't have to try so hard if he doesn't want to.
Well said
Memento Mori
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Something something collapsing uterus bomb.
frank millar, legendary writer of the dark kick-ass returns
They're talking about the Utimate Comics: Avengers pages that were posted.
Superman Adventures is long out of print iirc, like most of Millar's DC work. Might be some bad blood involved there too, i dunno.
TheDarkKnight774
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They're on comixology and surprisingly for 99 cents per issue
Edit: wow batman TAS series comics are 99 cents now too. These were $2 per earlier. Off to buy!
Freezasaurus
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That's it. From now on, Mark Millar is only allowed to write Crossed comics for the rest of his life. That way, most of us won't have to read anything from him ever again.
Fuck that guy.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Yes, the quality is quite good, too. All hail the digital future!
I specifically only bought the Millar issues however, the rest I have no strong opinion on.
Just catching up with the Bat-family comics in the New 52 and hit my first Batman crossover - Night of the Owls. I have also been reading Batman & Robin and Detective Comics along with a the first issue of Nightwing. This is the first crossover I've read so I'm not sure if will miss anything if I continue to read my Batman arc and subsequently read the whole volume of each book rather than reading the different monthlies in the order of the event.
Is that a sale or permanent? Wanna buy some
Freezasaurus
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ArtFX+ Deadpool - X-Force variant.
No word on whether he'll be readily available, or exclusive in some fashion.
No word on whether he'll be readily available, or exclusive in some fashion.
The cross-overs are just side stories, you don't need to read them.
TheDarkKnight774
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I have no idea. I just started fishing and saw they're all 99 cents. I've seen this happen before on young justice classic (great series) a year ago or so. The first 25 issues just silently went to 99 cent. I just checked and they still are.
Everyone should be buying peter David's young justice btw. Such a fun series with great art. And the first good chunk is 99 cents each. This didnt really get traded like it should. Like only 2 total. A real shame
Super hot
Tizoc
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What issues did Mark Millar write?
Speaking of which, he also wrote some stories for the UK Sonic comics.
So good.
Tizoc
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So I recently bought Planetary, from a friends recommendation. As someone who doesn't really read comics, I was quite impressed by the number of cameos from other comics I picked up on (Death and Dream at the funeral of the cake Constantine was my favourite).
However, am I slightly mad or was the very final part of the story a complete let-down?
However, am I slightly mad or was the very final part of the story a complete let-down?
After hearing about the reed richard equivalents superpower, and how amazing and evil it is, we don't see it in action once. Then he and the Sue Storm equivalent are killed just by a big fall, which seems completely out of place compared to how powerful they were built up to be and how tough the Johnny Storm equivalent was.
BlueScrote
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I only recently read Planetary after getting the omnibus for a steal. From what I can tell, this series dragged on and the final couple issues took fooorrreeevvverr to come out. I kind of thought that part of the ending was a let down too. Although I guess it fits with
Snow's process of thinking through everything
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend reading through the issue by issue analysis. which I really enjoyed.
Tyrant Rave
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It really is. I got all of the micro series and The Secret of the Foot Clan yesterday and I'm eager to read them. I picked up volumes 6 and 7 today at the shop so I can read through City Fall finally.
Kevin Eastman used to live down here apparently. One of the guys at the comic shop told me he used to come in pretty often and they have a Turtles painting by him that apparently took him four days to complete.
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It starts off embarrassingly bad IMO, but starts finding it's stride somewhere in the middle.
Rastafarian42
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Picked up the Krang War and The City Fall Arcs.
TheDarkKnight774
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Yea its a bit rough to start. Its odd, it feels like its starting in the middle of a story or something. An odd go, but it starts to find its groove
Freezasaurus
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I do love all the nods to the 80's cartoon that show up, though. Like the Neutrinos.
-Deadpool-
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Picked up Guardians #17 on Friday - what the hell was with that art change half-way through the book? *barf*, hope that's not a regular thing as I loooove the art in these books.
Rocket Raccoon #1 and #2 are gems. Hope this quality continues as it's looking like a regular on my pull list now. So good. The escape montage in #2 was amazing.
Rocket Raccoon #1 and #2 are gems. Hope this quality continues as it's looking like a regular on my pull list now. So good. The escape montage in #2 was amazing.
Freezasaurus
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My concern is the plot. If they don't get things in gear soon, I'll have to drop it. And I'd really rather not.
My concern is the plot. If they don't get things in gear soon, I'll have to drop it. And I'd really rather not.
You shouldn't keep buying a book you aren't enjoying. Funding bad books make you a bad person.
Tyrant Rave
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My concern is the plot. If they don't get things in gear soon, I'll have to drop it. And I'd really rather not.
That's the main reason why I dropped it. After 7 or 8 issues it felt like nothing really happened and I couldn't bring myself to read it anymore. I picked up 14 for the backup stories and it didn't feel like much changed with the main story :/
Freezasaurus
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At least I didn't buy Catwoman.
Nah, it hasn't been bad for very long. It's just the pacing of the last couple issues has been ridiculous. One issue skipped around to each character on the team (all oh whom were alone at the time) getting abducted, and then the following issue was more or less the same except everyone got rescued. God dammit, Bendis.
Zen_Arcade
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I think this is the best Deadpool costume.
Yeah, best Deadpool period.
Freezasaurus
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How long until Bendis is the new Nocenti?
No one is close to Nocenti level
Freezasaurus
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Not yet.
But I think Mark Millar is getting there. His writing is all shock-value and no substance.
Nocenti's writing is incoherent
TheDarkKnight774
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Just started totaling up the damage from this last week from the IST purchases, statues and Comixology sales. oh....my! i've got a lot of OT at work in my future to break even. But no regrets, I'm mapping out my plan and i'll get there!
Got any organs you can sell? If you're potent you can always sell your children for money.
whatsinaname
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What about Kidneys? You don't need both and those Hot Toys look mighty good.
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