Gotta be fair and give the big two shit for both doing it with extra pages and higher prices.
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Gotta be fair and give the big two shit for both doing it with extra pages and higher prices.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I'm still waiting for them to get an on-going damn it!
Freezasaurus
Member
Who cares? A price increase is still just that.
So two main things here:
1) quote unquote anniversary issues have been doing this for decades now, so it's not really new
2) there's precedent for it in a way that Marvel doing it for their #1s doesn't really have afaik
hipsterpants
Member
Why doesn't DC have any kind of Marvel Unlimited equivalent? Marvel sales are clearly good enough to show that it doesn't impact sales too much. On the flip side I am shelling out the money to buy the entirety of stuff like Batman, Azzarello's Wonder Woman, etc. so I guess it isn't needed.
btw what are the best new52 or later series? I need to make my reading list even more intimidating than it already is.
btw what are the best new52 or later series? I need to make my reading list even more intimidating than it already is.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Well, you already have Batman and Wonder Woman, so...
Action Comics (Geoff Johns or Greg Pak only)
Aquaman
Grayson
The Omega Men
Martian Manhunter
Starfire
Batman & Robin
Robin, Son of Batman
We Are Robin
Batman Eternal
off the top of my head. I'd also recommend Red Hood & The Outlaws and Red Hood/Arsenal if you have a high tolerance for Lobdellisms.
EDIT: Ooh, how did I forget Gotham Academy?
Who knows. I desperately wish they did.
I haven't read much New 52 stuff at all, BUT Batman, Batman and Robin, Jusice League, Green Arrow (Lemire/Sorrento run), Gotham Academy, Grayson, and Wonder Woman (Azzarello/Chang run) are all great. Batgirl of Burnside is also fun, I thought.
One in the same to me tbh.
Nah, that's it. I imagine it'll be back, maybe? In some form? But as it stands its over. Cool premise wasted on... THAT ending.
hipsterpants
Member
I think reading DD is making me understand the Bendis hate. It's pretty good but holy christ so much dialogue.
It ain't DD that warrants the Bendis hate.
my name is ed
Banned
This sentence applies to every BKV book!
It's mainly guardians right?
Also the event talk was sarcasm. Thought I do own all of doomed, Blight, and Axis.
It's not just Guardians. It's all his team books, his solo stuff is great.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
No. It's Bendis writing either events or team books. He doesn't do either well but keeps doing them.
Bendis is great at street level and solo books. That's his roots from his early indie days. Hell Jessica jones is practically him recreating his early character Jinx
Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine is the GOAT
The DOOM planet spread is amazing, and the entire 6 issue run is proof you can make time travel arcs great.
I like his x-men and his guardians. His guardians is nothing special but I enjoy it. I loved his x books beginning to end.
Shrug.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I don't like it as much as most it seems. Their bickering got on my nerves after a while. I was cool with it at first but then it wouldn't stop and felt more mean spirited than I'd expect
Me neither
Squadron Sinister #1 was ok-ish, not knowing anything about the Squadron supreme makes it hard to relate I guess
1602 Angela Witch Hunter on the other hand was execellent
Some like it, personally I'm not a fan. Or of 1610 in general.
I like Ultimate Spider-Man but the book is the epitome of Bendis-speak. It gets on my nerves.
"I'm going to school."
"YOU'RE going to school?"
"Yeah-I'm going to school."
"Ok."
"Ok?"
"Yeah! OK!"
*Peter looks at MJ*
*MJ Looks at Peter*
"I'm going to school."
EDIT: I submit into evidence-Exhibit A
I'm really not a fan of Bagley's art.
"I'm going to school."
"YOU'RE going to school?"
"Yeah-I'm going to school."
"Ok."
"Ok?"
"Yeah! OK!"
*Peter looks at MJ*
*MJ Looks at Peter*
"I'm going to school."
EDIT: I submit into evidence-Exhibit A
I'm really not a fan of Bagley's art.
When Jean mentioned people picturing her naked and Bendis needed a page for that... using the same damn layout.
I have never heard of this series. Adding it to my library in MU.
It's not a series, it's a 4 issue mini
Well I guess technical it's a series. But not in the "ongoing" way we mention series
Edit: wait it's actually 6 issues... I guess that's as long as Spidey & the X-Men, which is depressing :/
Big fan here, the first 10 issues are a big eh, after this its really good IMO.
The art really went awfull when Immonen replaced Bagley.
Six issue limited run. Essentially a standalone story arc.
I could not disagree more. Difference of taste though. Bagley has been around since I was kid-he obviously has his fans. I thought Immonen was far better.
I forgot that even existed.
my name is ed
Banned
probably the definitive Spider-Man story following Lees, Ditkos and JRSR original run on the character
If there could only be one time where there would be an avatar quote in the history of gaf
this would be it
avatar quote your own self breh
Gwen is Carnage.
And she is cloned.
my name is ed
Banned
this proves....?
honestly dont understand what youre trying to get at.
take a plot point out of context and...?
I know right? Osborne fucking Gwen tier of funny.
Tizoc
Member
Ultimate Spiderman is great, among the best Spiderman runs of all time IMO.
I don' like Bagley'sart as well but you gotta give them credit for being th artist for 100 issues of the run. His style is distinctive at least.
hipsterpants
Member
I got up to issue #85 of Ultimate Spider-Man and loved it. It does get a bit old though considering the sheer number of issues and I understand that I've passed its peak. I'll get to finishing it sooner or later.
Gwen's death was really awful though. It was one of those "wait, she's actually dead? oh" kind of moments.
edit: I should add that the early covers are hilariously early 2000s-looking. They get a lot better later.
Gwen's death was really awful though. It was one of those "wait, she's actually dead? oh" kind of moments.
edit: I should add that the early covers are hilariously early 2000s-looking. They get a lot better later.
Mondo is putting out some Marvel posters tomorrow. I really want to get one of the Dark Phoenix posters. The variant Wolverine with the whisker mask is pretty cool, too. I'm sure I'll miss them. Oh well!
Read the first two volumes of Ostrander's Suicide Squad. It is pretty great, with much darker back stories than I expected. William Hell is pretty great, and I hope I see more of that scumbag in the future.
Also, I finally read Monstress! Those issues are beautiful, and I'm really enjoying the story so far. I probably need to start reading some happier comics soon. Maybe I'll find a way to read old Sonic comics and nostalgia really hard.
Read the first two volumes of Ostrander's Suicide Squad. It is pretty great, with much darker back stories than I expected. William Hell is pretty great, and I hope I see more of that scumbag in the future.
Also, I finally read Monstress! Those issues are beautiful, and I'm really enjoying the story so far. I probably need to start reading some happier comics soon. Maybe I'll find a way to read old Sonic comics and nostalgia really hard.
BKatastrophe
Member
I was just referring to Hawkeye vs. Deadpool.
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Is there any worth reading?
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Earth 2 (followed by Earth 2 World's End)
Justice League Dark (Lemire's run. Nothing after)
Green Arrow (also Lemire's run)
Green Lantern (Johns' run)
Forever Evil (it's a good event story. Villains fighting villains. Super dope)
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Fucking why? It's so baaaaaaaaad
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Are you referring to All-New X-Men? Because that whole 1610 arc pisses me off so damn much
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It looks so funny, but it probably shouldn't.Had to Google "gwen carnage"
Lol :/
Freezasaurus
Member
Oh no, I get that. But just because there's precedent doesn't mean it isn't a shitty business practice.
Tizoc
Member
Alrighty then the next 2, after that comes my Top 5
7- Archie
Earlier this year Mark Waid and Fiona Staples presented a new modern Archie comic series. Although I can only recall reading maybe a handful of issues so far, what I did read of the series was very funny and filled with heartwarming moments. The presentation of panels to progress the story is a bit uncommon, then again i don't read much comics nowadays, but the structure of each issue so far has managed to keep th events going without feeling lost. Making Jughead the wise man was a nice touch too.
6- Mutliversity and Daredevil
I may be cheating here, but the bulk of Multiversity's issues were in 2014, and Daredevil by Mark Waid, concluded this year, that's prob. why I bulked them together.
The conclusion to these series felt as a triumph to the characters for one thing.
If anything I could take out SW and DV and replace them with these but doing it this way was the best way to have them all in my Top 10 list :V
7- Archie
Earlier this year Mark Waid and Fiona Staples presented a new modern Archie comic series. Although I can only recall reading maybe a handful of issues so far, what I did read of the series was very funny and filled with heartwarming moments. The presentation of panels to progress the story is a bit uncommon, then again i don't read much comics nowadays, but the structure of each issue so far has managed to keep th events going without feeling lost. Making Jughead the wise man was a nice touch too.
6- Mutliversity and Daredevil
I may be cheating here, but the bulk of Multiversity's issues were in 2014, and Daredevil by Mark Waid, concluded this year, that's prob. why I bulked them together.
The conclusion to these series felt as a triumph to the characters for one thing.
If anything I could take out SW and DV and replace them with these but doing it this way was the best way to have them all in my Top 10 list :V
I want to really highlight the importance of this book for Archie as a publisher in general. Not only is it one of the best books of 2015 with some of the most organic writing I have seen in ages, and a rockstar line-up of artists, but it's also a gateway into the Archie universe, and has helped me consider other Archie titles that I would have never even thought twice about picking up. Archie was (and still is, kinda) that book you would grab as an impulse buy when you waited with your mom at the checkout at the grocery store, but at the very least I appreciate and love the characters now. I hope we get a Sabrina book next.
Tizoc
Member
Hasn't the Archie company been downsizing lately though?