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[ShadowSwordmaster]

Late but thanks for the X-Men recs. Actually already started Excalibur and wew at Alan Davis' art. I also suppose I'll dive a little deeper into the 90s than originally planned.

How deep in the 90's are we talking about here?

 

[Dalek]

Regarding Action Comics and the duplicate Clark Kent.

Spoiler

why are people thinking it's Superboy Prime?

 

[Freezasaurus]

Such a great book.

That book had me as soon as I read the name "Gamete the Super-fetus."

 

[Messi]

Loved Hulk #1. Glad to see Nico Leon on art. I feel bad for Jen

 

[Freezasaurus]

Loved Hulk #1. Glad to see Nico Leon on art. I feel bad for Jen

Wasn't that one of last week's books? Did you just read it now? Messi pls

 

[hipsterpants]

How deep in the 90's are we talking about here?

I was thinking:

UXM/X-Men through X-cutioners song
David's X-Force
Davis' Excalibur
Age of Apocalypse

If I'm interested I might go further into UXM and X-Men. I'm going to avoid X-Force like the plague because Liefeld's art in New Mutants is an abomination (as is obvious). Probably don't need to explain but some of his attempts at displaying action are just lol-worthy.

 

[Freezasaurus]

I'm going to avoid X-Force like the plague because Liefeld's art in New Mutants is an abomination (as is obvious).

I feel that way about pretty much all 90's art.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

I was thinking:

UXM/X-Men through X-cutioners song
David's X-Force
Davis' Excalibur
Age of Apocalypse

If I'm interested I might go further into UXM and X-Men. I'm going to avoid X-Force like the plague because Liefeld's art in New Mutants is an abomination (as is obvious). Probably don't need to explain but some of his attempts at displaying action are just lol-worthy.

That is a lot of things to read. Are you going to read the tie-ins for X-Cutioners Song?

 

[Messi]

Wasn't that one of last week's books? Did you just read it now? Messi pls

I have a backlog of 730 active series books. I generally don't keep up on stuff. I try to read the meh books first and keep the good stuff for when I feel good but I never get to them :/. I decided to read some books tonight that I thought would be good. They were good. Hawkeye, Hulk, USAvengers, Gamora.

 

[Freezasaurus]

I have a backlog of 730 active series books. I generally don't keep up on stuff. I try to read the meh books first and keep the good stuff for when I feel good but I never get to them :/. I decided to read some books tonight that I thought would be good. They were good. Hawkeye, Hulk, USAvengers, Gamora.

I think you might be purchasing too many comics. Is there really a reason to keep up with meh comics? It's your money and all, but still.

 

[Messi]

I think you might be purchasing too many comics. Is there really a reason to keep up with meh comics? It's your money and all, but still.

It feels like a compulsion at times. Other times great shit comes from it. That's what keeps me buying. Also fear that I'll miss something.

I have a problem . I stopped posting lists because I was embarrassed.

 

[mreddie]

State of your logo, mate.

 

[echoshifting]

I was thinking:

UXM/X-Men through X-cutioners song
David's X-Force
Davis' Excalibur
Age of Apocalypse

If I'm interested I might go further into UXM and X-Men. I'm going to avoid X-Force like the plague because Liefeld's art in New Mutants is an abomination (as is obvious). Probably don't need to explain but some of his attempts at displaying action are just lol-worthy.

You can skip X-Force if you want, I SUPPOSE, but you should stick X-Statix on that list

Hulk was great. Loved it. I feel for Jen too

 

[Freezasaurus]

I have a problem . I stopped posting lists because I was embarrassed.

You could have just copy/pasted Diamond's weekly list.

 

[Messi]

You could have just copy/pasted Diamond's weekly list.

I don't pull everything

 

[Freezasaurus]

I don't pull everything

Close enough.

 

[TheFlow]

State of your logo, mate.

If I can read a hulk #1 I guess I can try this too

 

[Vibranium]

State of your logo, mate.

Wrong Nick Fury (Looks at avatar).

Can Marvel at least get Sterenko to write a classic Fury miniseries set in the 60s? Because that would be amazing. Oh well, maybe Robinson will give Junior some personality, because he needs it.

 

[Messi]

I don't think I'd pull a Nick Furry ongoing. But ACO is awesome :/

 

[Freezasaurus]

I don't think I'd pull a Nick Furry ongoing. But ACO is awesome :/

I was never a big fan of Nick Fury. I only started to warm up to him when Hickman was writing Secret Warriors. Such a god damn great book.

 

[echoshifting]

Robinson is writing it so I have to at least try it

Expectations are low

 

[TheFlow]

Saga #41


hory shit! like yo.

Marco coming in like a boss and then the emotional stuff. wow.

 

[hipsterpants]

Just got to when Magneto goes bad again. No wonder it happened when the X-characters are ungrateful shits to him. Especially the New Mutants once Claremont left. Fuck them. He clearly should have gotten himself a Rogue waifu earlier.

You can skip X-Force if you want, I SUPPOSE, but you should stick X-Statix on that list

Hulk was great. Loved it. I feel for Jen too

Just referring to the 90s version unless it's worth checking out. I already have the stuff when Milligan takes over in my MU library.

I feel that way about pretty much all 90's art.

I don't mind Lee's. But Liefeld cannot do action. At all. The movement panel-to-panel is so bad, far worse than the art itself.

That is a lot of things to read. Are you going to read the tie-ins for X-Cutioners Song?

Just the main stuff. I don't plan on reading the tie-ins.

 

[mreddie]

Robinson is writing it so I have to at least try it

Expectations are low

Supreme was okay, Scarlet Witch...ehh.

 

[TheFlow]

Nova #2

Solid chapter. I see how this issue appealed to a lot of people. It was basically a commentary of the current marvel quo.Think this is the 3rd-4th book within the month or so to do that. I didn't mind the water marks in the last issue because they served their purpose quite well. This issue did feel cleaner. Also I never had a prob with Sam so I am glad he got to shine in this issue. Love how he always calls on Spidey and Ms.Marvel for this type of stuff.

I think Hawkeye is still my favorite marvel book of the week.


edit: forgot Moon Knight came out this week! I gotta tackle that later. too late in the day for heavy reading.

 

[BKatastrophe]

I'm just asking for an ongoing, not for Wally to take over. Barry is boring imo and DC ruined the Flash family.

Barry is boring as fuck. He's up there with Carol Danvers, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Simon Baz, and Cyborg BUT he is the most mainstream Flash and therefore will get a bigger push. Wally isn't getting an ongoing anytime soon. Not as long as there are two Wallys.

The Gambit of batman villains

What does that even mean?

Regarding Action Comics and the duplicate Clark Kent.

Spoiler

why are people thinking it's Superboy Prime?

Spoiler

Because he's a depowered Superman. That's basically it.

Just got to when Magneto goes bad again. No wonder it happened when the X-characters are ungrateful shits to him. Especially the New Mutants once Claremont left. Fuck them. He clearly should have gotten himself a Rogue waifu earlier.




Just referring to the 90s version unless it's worth checking out. I already have the stuff when Milligan takes over in my MU library.



I don't mind Lee's. But Liefeld cannot do action. At all. The movement panel-to-panel is so bad, far worse than the art itself.



Just the main stuff. I don't plan on reading the tie-ins.

Also don't forget to read the Messiah Trilogy: Messiah Complex/Messiah War/Second Coming.

Here's a fun reading order for you whenever ya feel it:

X-Men: Messiah Complex
X-Force by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
X-Force/Cable: Messiah War
X-Force by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost: The Complete Collection Vol. 2
X-Men: Second Coming

I'll recommend that shit every time.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

What?

 

[mreddie]

No.

 

[arkon]

Hooray! All caught up on my physical comics backlog for the first time in like, over a year. Still of course have a massive digital comics backlog. Plus a pretty sizable chunk of manga, which will probably slot into the time that was dedicated to reading comics for a good while. But yeah, that's a happy bit of progress to hit.

BTW: the Usagi Yojimbo issues with the taiko drum from Saga volume 7 was really, really good stuff. Like, it just worked so amazingly well that it's a standout even amongst that consistently fantastic series. Also, the final thing I hit in this reading pile was Dial H, which was really good. Had read like the first arc or so back in the day, but the rest was new to me. I'd say it got just a tad off the rails and didn't hit me quite as hard went it 100% crazy at the very end. But that issue with

Spoiler

Open-Window Man and the graffiti world

was so, so freaking good. Like with that Usagi Yojimbo story mentioned above, it was just one of those comics where you know you're reading something really special when you hit it.

It's a great issue. One of my favourite single issues ever.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

No.

Wasp X Witchblade

Written and drawn by Sejic.

 

[Neoxon]

So when do you guys think that Champions is gonna update Sam & Young Cyclops' designs to reflect the recent Nova book & X-Men: Blue respectively?

 

[Rhaknar]

So when do you guys think that Champions is gonna update Sam & Young Cyclops' designs to reflect the recent Nova book & X-Men: Blue respectively?

Nova has a new look?

 

[BKatastrophe]

I just spent my entire day off playing Bloodborne, and then my night playing Demon's Souls. Super tired, but I'm gonna try to read some comics before bed. Pretty sure this has been my favorite day off ever.

So when do you guys think that Champions is gonna update Sam & Young Cyclops' designs to reflect the recent Nova book & X-Men: Blue respectively?

Probably after IvX and maybe some other major event.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Where are you in Bloodborne now? I killed the Shadow of Yarnaham yesterday... its the best game in years.

 

[LordOfLore]

Nick Fury Jr. ongoing: Probably skipping this. If it was Shalvey on it I might've taken a chance.

 

[JordanDeGroot]

I never really got over the fact that ultimate nick fury and nick fury jr are pretty much the same guy, they even had jr lose his eye to match up, just seems so lazy, but you know comics gonna comics

Shadows of yarnham was a good boss, you've got to take at least one of those guys out early to stop them ganging up on you, it's weird how between me and other friends who played it I found some boss's they found really easy pretty tough and they've struggled on ones I beat first time

 

[Dalek]

Old Man Logan was fantastic this week.

 

[Memento Mori]

Riddler as a detective was something Dini came up with when he was writing Detective, ironically. Don't remember Morrison using him.

There's a great page from Dini's Detective Comic run where Riddler is stealing other people's deductions from an online detective forum frequented by Batman and Detective Chimp.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

I never really got over the fact that ultimate nick fury and nick fury jr are pretty much the same guy, they even had jr lose his eye to match up, just seems so lazy, but you know comics gonna comics

Shadows of yarnham was a good boss, you've got to take at least one of those guys out early to stop them ganging up on you, it's weird how between me and other friends who played it I found some boss's they found really easy pretty tough and they've struggled on ones I beat first time

I had a lot of problems until I powered the Tonsil up and then it was a walk in the park.

 

[JordanDeGroot]

I had a lot of problems until I powered the Tonsil up and then it was a walk in the park.

Yeah I'd keep hold of that bad boy, its pretty useful on another boss shortly after that one too

 

[Serpentine]

Nova and Hawkeye are so dope

Wasp was alright too, pretty fun

 

[Owzers]

Amazon doesn't have any Harley holiday statues right now, so no exchange yet. I'm going to read comics this weekend as a form of protest, started Lady Killer vol 1 last night.

 

[Malyse]

ty for the rec, romrom <3

i readeded it and now i am full with happies :>

a gorgeous issue, with down to earth but flowing dialog and super likeable characters! cant wait for issue #2!

You should read Princeless.

Everyone who likes Wasp should read Princeless.

 

[RepairmanJack]

Captain Atom

This was overly dense with what felt like needless dialogue and was overall very boring. Best part was the JL showing up and assuming Atom was going insane, but it also felt really dumb and asshole-ish of them at the same time.

 

[Mindwipe]

Captain Atom

This was overly dense with what felt like needless dialogue and was overall very boring. Best part was the JL showing up and assuming Atom was going insane, but it also felt really dumb and asshole-ish of them at the same time.

This could be almost every Captain Atom book in the history of the character.

 

[Roman]

You should read Princeless.

Everyone who likes Wasp should read Princeless.

For me personally the science aspect, continuity nods and Hank Pym connection were huge factors for why I enjoyed it.

Captain Atom

This was overly dense with what felt like needless dialogue and was overall very boring. Best part was the JL showing up and assuming Atom was going insane, but it also felt really dumb and asshole-ish of them at the same time.

My impressions were very similar. Shame, because I like the character and would like him to be more prominent in the DCU.

 

[RepairmanJack]

This could be almost every Captain Atom book in the history of the character.

Every time the doctor started talking I wanted to throw my tablet.

Maybe not a good book for newer readers to DC?

 

[Tawney Bomb]

Regarding Action Comics and the duplicate Clark Kent.

Spoiler

why are people thinking it's Superboy Prime?

I need this to happen.

 

[Ross61]

Every time the doctor started talking I wanted to throw my tablet.

Maybe not a good book for newer readers to DC?

Well it had to find a way to bridge the previous New 52 version with a soon "Rebirthed" character, so unless you're interested in that I'd say no.

 

[dawgparty]

Just started reading Clean Room. What do you guys think of it? I'm pretty interested but I feel like I am more confused than I would like to or maybe should be.