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COMICS! |OT| January 2015. So many variants you'd swear it's 1995 instead.

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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.
I feel like there was a smidge less fucking "TIME TRAVEL!" back then. Character death wasn't quite as spinny a revolving door either. Which is ironic because it was always Charles "I hid in a basement because aliens / wanted to really fuck you all up emotionally" Xavier at the center of any time travel and NOT DEAD hijinx.
 
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E the Shaggy

Junior Member
pulga said:
Cyclops is dead
Magik is dead
Emma Frost is dead
Charles Xavier LIVES and drops a final panel "TO ME, MY XMEN" megaton

None of it is gonna stick but whatever :lol
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The entire story is based around time travel so yeah, none of it will stick.

BUT time travel's being used WAY too much in Marvel recently to fix shit. Uncanny Avengers and Age of Ultron, along with many many others as of late.
 
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TetraxShards

Member
Messi said:
Morrison book drawn by Stewart?

I would be down for that.

Cameron draws some incredibly sexy women.
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It already exists:
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pulga

pulga

Banned
Rhaknar said:
in 3 months nothing matters anyway

so who
kills cyke, magik and emma then? past xavier
? I was almost bummed to read the spoiler above, then I remembered I wont read the issue for another 6 months anyway so /shrug
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SHIELD nukes Cyke, Magik and the new OP mutant to dust. OP mutant literally rises from the ashes.

OP mutant shows up at the school, Emma punches him, he transmutes Emma into diamonds, claims he can't bring her back :lol
 
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TheSoed

Member
Hi!

So you guys were super helpful when I was on a Vertigo kick a few months ago and now I'm basically all caught up.

Now, I'm having withdrawals.

So now I'm looking for anything good, period.

For superheroes, my tastes trend towards DC. I've read the major Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman/Green Lantern/Aquaman stuff. DKR, Year One, All Star, Rucka's run, the Azzarello WW, Sinestro Corps War, etc.

I'm not a huge Marvel fan, but I'll take the great stuff. No fan of X-Men so most of that I can skip. I've sampled most of the current stuff (Thor, Avengers, etc) and it wasn't too my liking. I did enjoy Hickman's Fantastic Four, though. But I like Fantastic Four in general. And obviously my avatar shows I adore the Silver Surfer.

And I love non-superhero stuff too. I've read pretty much every major Vertigo book (Sandman, Preacher, Transmetropolitan, 100 Bullets, Fables, DMZ, Scalped, this that the other) and I'm caught up to the great Image stuff that's cool too. I used to collect way more back in the day so I read your Danger Girls, WIldCATS with Joe Casey, Fathom. Random stuff like that.

I'm looking more for completed stories too. Short runs work, I just reread Warren Ellis' Authority run, and Planetary. Stuff like that is what I'm looking for. I'm currently reading the Marvel adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. So anything works. I've even read the Moby Dick and Treasure Island comics Marvel put out. I've read Knights of the Old Republic and even those random Indiana Jones Dark Horse comics.

Any length. 3 issues, 100 issues, whatev. I'll read Spawn from the jump if someone tells me it's worth reading. :)

Just looking to pick brains.

Thanks so much for any help you guys give!
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
E the Shaggy said:
The entire story is based around time travel so yeah, none of it will stick.

BUT time travel's being used WAY too much in Marvel recently to fix shit. Uncanny Avengers and Age of Ultron, along with many many others as of late.
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Hickmans F4 run was all about time travel aswell so its not exactly a recent thing. and I agree btw, completely overused
 
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KoruptData

Member
I knew it was coming, I had a few weeks where only 5-7 comics came out. I knew one of these Wednesday's was gonna be huge. Next weeks pull is at 18 books! Good lawd.
 
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Neoxon

Junior Member
pulga said:
Cyclops is dead
Magik is dead
Emma Frost is dead
Charles Xavier LIVES and drops a final panel "TO ME, MY XMEN" megaton

None of it is gonna stick but whatever :lol
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Cyclops is a major player in Secret Wars, none of this will stick.
 
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Zombine

Banned
What?! I have to wait for the first week of April for the next volume of Wolfsmund? God damn why did vol 5 end like that? Fuck.

I think vol 6 is the finish line.
 
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GrandHarrier

Member
Zombine said:
What?! I have to wait for the first week of April for the next volume of Wolfsmund? God damn why did vol 5 end like that? Fuck.

I think vol 6 is the finish line.
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Just assume
everyone dies. A plague infects the population that causes them to melt and then explode and finally a black hole destroys the Earth.

It's the only logical ending to this story.
 
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Boogiepop

Member
my name is ed said:
Results of the comic contest were put up and I didn't even make honorable mention
*le sigh*

Thank you for all the help, folks. I really appreciate it.


Fake edit: the guy I had pegged to win it all didn't make honorable mention either. They probably didn't think he could update on a weekly basis. His artwork was pretty stunning. I'll link it later. Right now, it's sleep time.
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Dang, man. I intended to be sure to vote for you, but I live under a social media rock and don't have any of those things, but then I was like "eh, I can put something together for this" but then failed to get around to doing it. So feel free to lay the blame fully on me.

Seriously man though, you have the talent, you just need to keep trying till you break through.
 
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Zombine

Banned
GrandHarrier said:
Just assume
everyone dies. A plague infects the population that causes them to melt and then explode and finally a black hole destroys the Earth.

It's the only logical ending to this story.
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I can't talking about it. You're not there yet. Vol 6 cover does give away the outcome though.

Walter Tell is the baddest motherfucker around.
 
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Boogiepop

Member
Oh right, before I forget: read volume 2 of both RID and MTMTE last night. And I really have to say, poor RID is in an unfortunate position, since it's actually a solid and enjoyable book. It's just that MTMTE makes it look like crap by comparison. And yeah, with Volume 2 MTMTE went from "really, really great" to "everyone in this thread seriously better be reading this series because holy crap!" for me. That ending of the chapter with
how Ratchet go his hands back
was just goddamn fantastic, seriously. God I'm loving this series, and I'm really glad I have up to volume 5 in both, plus I've still got Dark Cybertron to slot in there somewhere...
 
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Owzers

Member
Buffy Season 10 is fairly disappointing so far, i think the worst of the three seasons. It's goofy without being funny.
 
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KoruptData

Member
Nightmare fuel.

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I'm now convinced Trent Reznor was inspired.

Lyrics

I'm becoming less defined
As days go by
Fading away
(Well you might say)
I'm losing focus
Kind of drifting into the abstract
In terms of how I see myself
Sometimes I think I can see right through myself

Less concerned about fitting into the world
Your world, that is
Because it doesn't really matter
Anymore
None of this really matters anymore

Yes I am alone
But then again I always was
As far back as I can tell
I think maybe it's because
Because you were never real to begin with
I just made you up
To hurt myself
And it worked
Yes it did

There is no you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me
Only

[Pt. 2]
Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
And it turned out to be a scab
And I had this funny feeling
Like I just knew it's something bad
I just couldn't leave alone
And I kept picking at that scab
Like it was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
But I climbed through

And now I'm somewhere I am not supposed to be
And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see
Now I know why
And now I know why
Things aren't as pretty
On the inside

There is no fucking you
There is only me
Only
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Neoxon

Junior Member
pulga said:
gee thanks for the spoilers m8
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How is it a spoiler, his face is on a ton of the Secret Wars covers. And seriously, what's with you & face images (& now stealing form me)? Even then, I put the spoiler tag as a courtesy in case you didn't follow the news.
 
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Lyte Edge

All I got for the Vernal Equinox was this stupid tag
pulga said:
Cyclops is dead
Magik is dead
Emma Frost is dead
Charles Xavier LIVES and drops a final panel "TO ME, MY XMEN" megaton

None of it is gonna stick but whatever :lol
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That's all part of the self-contained story in Uncanny.
And Xavier didn't come back...Eva Bell brought a younger Xavier to the present with her power. I suppose this could all just tie into the upcoming Secret Wars stuff, but I expect that the younger Xavier will go back in time and do something to stop the super-powerful new mutant from fucking everything up or the mutant himself will find that he can resurrect people by the end of the story.
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
Pie and Beans said:
I feel like there was a smidge less fucking "TIME TRAVEL!" back then. Character death wasn't quite as spinny a revolving door either. Which is ironic because it was always Charles "I hid in a basement because aliens / wanted to really fuck you all up emotionally" Xavier at the center of any time travel and NOT DEAD hijinx.
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Not sure if it was ever confirmed but I think speculation was that what Marvel started the whole "Time is Broken" thing years ago as lead up to Secret Wars they essentially allowed or even encouraged their writers to play with time travel as much as they want which is why we are seeing so much in the last couple of years.

It will likely be put back in the toy box after Secret Wars and be used a bit more sparingly.
 
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