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COMICS! |OT| February 2013. How can it be called a "SUPER Bowl" when nobody can fly?
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Probably won't go back til Sat at earliest but more likely next Weds and they will probably be gone by then
I'm not sure if I'll be working Saturday with the blizzard and all. If I make it out there I'll pick up an extra for you. There was a 1 limit per customer but I'm sure it'll be okay.Probably won't go back til Sat at earliest but more likely next Weds and they will probably be gone by then
Ahh alright. No worries, I just thought I would ask.
I'm a bit LTTP with this conversation, but this thread added three pages of posts since I checked last night.
New Avengers Infinity Gems (w/ issue 3 spoilers):
New Avengers Infinity Gems (w/ issue 3 spoilers):
The Mind Gem shows up at three different colours during the course of New Avengers #3. At the start of the book, when beast receives the gem from Xavier's safe, it is blue which is the correct color. In the second scene, just before the Illuminati put together the gauntlet, it is coloured red (which is the colour of the power gem). Finally, when the gems shatter, it is coloured green (which is the colour of the soul gem). None of the gems are coloured correctly in that second scene. The only gem that is coloured correctly in the final scene is the time gem which disappeared.
The same colourist worked on issues 2 and 3, and all of the gems are the correct colour in #2. Either he forgot their colours the following month, or it is intentional.
The same colourist worked on issues 2 and 3, and all of the gems are the correct colour in #2. Either he forgot their colours the following month, or it is intentional.
Vermillion
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According to Hickman's formspring, they just fucked up.
Link?
Rastafarian42
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So there's a Hulk Jeph Loeb sale on ComiXology.. The Arthur Adams issues look good... How is it ComicGAF ?
I guess that explains why I read Bruce Wayne whining about being rich an unappreciated, that was an idea I had never once seen in a DC comic. Their characters have always been super rich super heroes but they never acted like it was some kind of cross to bear.
Father_Brain
Banned
Green Team is actually a (presumably very loose) revamp of a very obscure 70s DC title, only one issue of which was ever published.
They also made cameos in a couple of the Ambush Bug minis:
and in Morrison's Animal Man:
They also made cameos in a couple of the Ambush Bug minis:
and in Morrison's Animal Man:
Great art but really dumb and not fun dumb....after issue 7 or so you grow to hate it.
Huh, so the Tiny Titans guys doing this actually makes sense, I guess.
But why the hell frame it as a 1% vs 99% thing? That's dumb as fuck.
Father_Brain
Banned
Based on the interviews, that's a stupid promotional stunt that's really only relevant to Simone's book.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Brah please let me know when Fear Agent ships from Amazon. Gonna renew my Prime for it.
It'll be okay if you just abandon any affection for DC trash.
Anticitizen One
Banned
I hope Morrison's President Superman is a regular in Gail Simones new book
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
I know I am late on this but add flags of our fathers mini series. Basically itsncaptain America and Black panther killing Nazi's. Its pretty good.
Pretty much everything about that sounds great.
Crimsonlink
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Oh man dark times for the Superman family
I'm pretty hyped about Superman vs Orion. Also interested in what Andy does with Action comics.
Superboy sounds like he is going early Damien style lol.
Don't care too much about Supergirl.
I'm pretty hyped about Superman vs Orion. Also interested in what Andy does with Action comics.
Superboy sounds like he is going early Damien style lol.
Don't care too much about Supergirl.
Hammond showing up in a Supes book? Interesting.
Spike Spiegel
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http://marvel.com/news/story/20084/marvel_prose_expands_with_avengers_and_x-men
Also... interesting. :|Hyperion Books and Marvel Entertainment today announced plans to partner and publish two action-packed novels featuring popular Marvel super heroes. Scheduled for release in June, both novels showcase strong, smart heroines seeking happiness and love while battling cosmic evil.
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The announcement was made by Hyperions Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Dyssegaard. Of the deal, Dyssegaard says, Marvel has had tremendous success with recent hit movies and we think its a great time to explore what happens to super heroines when they are dropped into traditional womens novels.
Injustice was decent, but it just reads like an old Elseworlds or What if? title. When you don't have to worry about continuity or franchise longevity, doing crazy things is easy. Also, aspects of the scenario remind me of a mash-up of Kingdom Come, The Dark Knight, and Red Son.
This seems like one of those projects that is clearly intended to capture a young female readership, but will primarily be read by 25-45 year old men.
This seems like one of those projects that is clearly intended to capture a young female readership, but will primarily be read by 25-45 year old men.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
God damn, THIS
Crimsonlink
Member
My thoughts on the Injustice series so far.
Injustice imo is just a lame excuse to have Batman beat Superman and give him the 9 yards about why he shouldn't go bad blah blah blah. Which is why most fighting game stories are crap.
Sure the shock value was good and seeing Supes run his hand through Joker was great and the plot works out as Supes lost everything thanks to the mad clown. But its hard to take it seriously when you know at the end of the series someone will stop him and make him realize that he is a good guy excluding the possibility of a bad ending. Like this turn from hero to dictator isn't legit so to say.
Taylor makes Superman go through a painful loss and uses that to turn him into a killer. Its a change of character for the sake of the story. Superman didn't naturally turn into a dictator. They had to make him lose something to turn him into one. Thats one of the things I dislike about Injustice. I'll might change my mind as more issues come out and more of the story is freshed out, maybe Taylor will surprise me and convince me that the story is good.
Sure the shock value was good and seeing Supes run his hand through Joker was great and the plot works out as Supes lost everything thanks to the mad clown. But its hard to take it seriously when you know at the end of the series someone will stop him and make him realize that he is a good guy excluding the possibility of a bad ending. Like this turn from hero to dictator isn't legit so to say.
Taylor makes Superman go through a painful loss and uses that to turn him into a killer. Its a change of character for the sake of the story. Superman didn't naturally turn into a dictator. They had to make him lose something to turn him into one. Thats one of the things I dislike about Injustice. I'll might change my mind as more issues come out and more of the story is freshed out, maybe Taylor will surprise me and convince me that the story is good.
Hoping to get into the female demographic? Wish it luck
Crimsonlink
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BenjaminBirdie
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here's hoping the she hulk book is as good as slott's run
And which way is that?
Spike Spiegel
Member
They bring back Jimmy, Justin and Amanda too?
The one that kills off Peter Parker only to have a stupid fucking story that pewters out in nine fucking issues. If you're gonna go for something like that, make it last. Or at least, make it mean something. Hickman and Morrison got it right. It's not like it cannot be done. It's just that doing it like this with that kind of payoff fucking blows.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Yeah, can't wait to hear this one.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
lol you meant to say "peters" out but you just couldn't make the pun, could you
anyway, solicit sez there's "no" spider man after this so, uh, yeah, MIGHT WANNA REVISE THAT 'NINE' BUDDY LOFL
Nope, still Levitz, Maguire, and Borges.
I LIKE TO THINK I AM BETTER THAN THIS OKAY (i'm probably not and PUNS ARE HARD WHEN ENGLISH IS YOUR SECOND LANGUAGE)
I've already won one bet on this stupid-ass storyline. I'm up for another : Peter Parker will not be Spider-Man again. Somebody take me up on this. I'm game for whatevs.
Rastafarian42
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Dem Marcos Martin Superior Spider-Man covers....
-Pyromaniac-
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Can I rant about Superior Spider-man? You know what bugs me most about it? It's that it's so obvious. I don't mean the thing actually happening itself. I mean everything that happened afterwards. As soon as Ock became Peter Parker it was just so obvious what they were going to do. Oh he's going to fuck with MJ, oh he is going to be harder on criminals and possibly kill, oh he's going to do this and that. It's like I've instantly mapped out all possibilities in my head, and now I'm just waiting for the book to go through the motions and get this story over with already.
Maybe it'll find a way to surprise me though, and maybe the ending will have real consequences other than Ock being dead for good. Guess we'll see.
Maybe it'll find a way to surprise me though, and maybe the ending will have real consequences other than Ock being dead for good. Guess we'll see.
Supermanisdead
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The whole story of SSM is dumb. What was the point of killing him? Slott is boring.
GrandHarrier
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Where did you see this?
Spike Spiegel
Member
*shrug*
About Superior Spider-Man, I remember some speculation going on after the first issue that this storyline was coming... that either there'd be a fight for control of the body that Peter's ghost would lose, OR that Peter's ghost would decide Otto was doing a good enough job as Spider-Man that he could move on to the afterlife.
Or maybe Peter's ghost is going to go inhabit someone else's body... say, did we ever find out anything about 616 Miles Morales?
CBR has the May Justice League group solicits. I'd link but I'm on my phone.
GrandHarrier
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I can find it. Thanks for the heads up.
Edit: Awesome! Her old look is just so iconic for me that I'm pleased to see it return. I understood what they were trying for with the new one but it just didn't work out. And damn that is a sexy looking cover.
DC May Solicits
Face it Tiger..
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Help me out here, Marvel Comic-GAF.
in the secret avengers book it states Daisy Johnson (aka Quake) is the current director of SHIELD,
I thought Obama gave Cap the reigns after SHIELD reactivated?
in the secret avengers book it states Daisy Johnson (aka Quake) is the current director of SHIELD,
I thought Obama gave Cap the reigns after SHIELD reactivated?
No problem, Comic Vine has Batman and Newsarama has Superman. Haven't seen any others.
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