Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
No argument there.
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COMICS!!! |OT| January 2017 This is the Dawning of the Age of Apocalypse
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No argument there.
hipsterpants
Member
So I watched Civil War again and liked it a lot more than the first time, probably because I wasn't hyped up by a bunch of people on here claiming it to be the best superhero movie ever. It's a pretty entertaining movie but holy shit Zemo's plan is stupid. I also think the Scarlet Witch stuff isn't done very well. They should have made a real Cap 3 (CW is like half a Captain America movie) and put Civil War into an Avengers movie to flesh more stuff out and give the villain a less terrible plan not dependent on a bunch of convenient events and good guy stupidity.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I don't think there's an artist in the game that can nail a facial expression like McKelvie can.
You're obviously forgetting Greg Land.
BKatastrophe
Member
Diamondback is a POTENTIALLY good villain with a lot of great backstory and character elements who is largely relegated to a quippy pop culture reference machine who exists to bitch about Luke and shoot everyone. I can't stand him, and as time has gone on I've begun to dislike him even more.
YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD
BKatastrophe
Member
I think it's far more of a Cap movie than an Avengers film. THe only part that could make it an Avenger film is the fact that there are Avengers in it. Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Spider-Man, Vision, and War Machine don't get any real development. Neither do Natasha or Falcon, in fact. It's largely focused on Cap and Bucky, with Black Panther running third and Iron Man playing antagonist. Scarlet Witch gets a nice storyline, but that's only because it ties in with Zemo and she's pretty much irrelevant for at least half of the movie. The Avengers films were focused on the team as a whole. People praise CW for balancing a ton of characters, but seem to conveniently remove the fact that 2/3 of the characters exist for the airport fight and nothing more from their minds. The Avengers movies actually balanced time between all the characters, even if Age of Ultron was a bit too dense.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
For me Sejic is up there with the best when it comes to facial expressions. McKelvie is fantastic too.
Serpentine
Banned
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe is the best comic
His one facial expression is on point!
Same, but not with the intended song 'cause I don't think I've even heard the song the title is referencing
His one facial expression is on point!
Tizoc
Member
It was their main seller, and Universe had been the better book for some time.
The mainline book's current arc is pretty good though...even though it's merely Ian wedging in his own stories of the original games
Kevin Maguire.
Tizoc
Member
GOAT artist.
LordOfLore
Banned
I want this.
@Events: Marvel had The final Secret Wars issue, Standoff(remember that?), Spider-Women, Apocalypse Wars, Clone Conspiracy, CWII, DoX and now IvX and MU(the #0 came out before the new year, right?).
Oh, and since my last post before bed got lost at the bottom of a page:
Right before bed Ellis' newsletter arrived in my mail. Small one. The parts people here might enjoy:
Fuck this list and Marvel's social marketing team.
@Events: Marvel had The final Secret Wars issue, Standoff(remember that?), Spider-Women, Apocalypse Wars, Clone Conspiracy, CWII, DoX and now IvX and MU(the #0 came out before the new year, right?).
Oh, and since my last post before bed got lost at the bottom of a page:
Right before bed Ellis' newsletter arrived in my mail. Small one. The parts people here might enjoy:
Fuck this list and Marvel's social marketing team.
He was talking about big events. Some of those you listed aren't events and there is no Monsters Unleashed #0.
Unless you want to count Secret Wars as a 2016 event, CW2 was the only big one.
LordOfLore
Banned
Standoff had tons of tie-ins.
So it was a Crossover.
LordOfLore
Banned
It had issues outside the normal books.
It really didn't. Standoff was 2 months long and only a small part of the line tied into it.
DoX didn't, IvX ties in with every book in the Inhumans and X-Men lines (except for Karnak somehow, weird)
Big events are the ones like CW2, Secret Wars and Axis that take over the line.
IvX has tie-ins from the X-Men and Inhumans team books, but DoX was a mini.
IvX has tie-ins from the X-Men and Inhumans team books, but DoX was a mini.
Only the team books.
Yeah, I've heard about that. Really dumb. The omnis feel like they were created in great collaboration with Robinson.
LordOfLore
Banned
There's a Shi'ar sale on CMX.
RepairmanJack
Member
Don't DoX me bro!
Edit: With Multiversity being brought up with the current Superman arc is Multiversity worth going back to? Is there still supposed to be some kind of follow-up?
just ignore me...
Edit: With Multiversity being brought up with the current Superman arc is Multiversity worth going back to? Is there still supposed to be some kind of follow-up?
Freezasaurus
Member
No one asked for that.
LordOfLore
Banned
It has War of Kings at least.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I'll be starting that pretty soon. But on MU like a civilized human being.
my name is ed
Banned
That's Salvador Larroca actually. That Iron Man run is full of bad art
On second thought I'm not sure, hard to separate out garbage
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Paolo Rivera
What I read last week. Monstress and Flintstones were the highlights.
1.Monstress #1
2.Monstress #2
3.Monstress #3
4.Monstress #4
5.Monstress #5
6.Monstress #6
7.Monstress #7
8.monstress #8
9.Monstress #9
10.Paper Girls #7
11.Paper Girls #8
12.Paper Girls #9
13.Paper Girls #10
14.East of West #30
15.Infamous Iron Man #3
16.Black Road #1
17.Black Road #2
18.Black Road #3
19.Black Road #4
20.Black Road #5
21.Flintstones #2
22.Flintstones #3
23.Flintstones #4
24.Flintstones #5
25.Flintstones #6
26.The unstoppable wasp #1
27.U.S Avengers #1
28.Unworthy Thor #3
29.Hawkeye #2
30.Avengers #3
31.Saga #41
32.Nova #2
1.Monstress #1
2.Monstress #2
3.Monstress #3
4.Monstress #4
5.Monstress #5
6.Monstress #6
7.Monstress #7
8.monstress #8
9.Monstress #9
10.Paper Girls #7
11.Paper Girls #8
12.Paper Girls #9
13.Paper Girls #10
14.East of West #30
15.Infamous Iron Man #3
16.Black Road #1
17.Black Road #2
18.Black Road #3
19.Black Road #4
20.Black Road #5
21.Flintstones #2
22.Flintstones #3
23.Flintstones #4
24.Flintstones #5
25.Flintstones #6
26.The unstoppable wasp #1
27.U.S Avengers #1
28.Unworthy Thor #3
29.Hawkeye #2
30.Avengers #3
31.Saga #41
32.Nova #2
JordanDeGroot
Member
I,m sure other people here could offer a lot more knowledge and say whether there was any kind of follow up material but after giving multiversity a re-read recently I'd definitely recommend it, apart from the start and end issues, each issue is almost a stand alone, each covering a different earth and style of comic - if you look at some of the online breakdowns on the issues there's themes running throughout the stories to tie it all in - I can be hit or miss on morrison but its pretty darn good
I'm a bit late on this one due to the weekend and later deliveries still from the holidays, but I'd also recommend wasp 1, it was pretty charming and I really liked the idea of the ladies of science in the letters page, though I think they might need to tone it down a tiny bit maybe, its on the verge of diabetes with its sweetness sometimes
JordanDeGroot
Member
Talking about cross overs and Marvel's problems I think one problems is that most issues now are a cross over even when not stated. You'd have trouble apart from a few select out there series going a few issues of any solo series without another hero showing up or another team showing up. They don't have time to build up there own character, purpose, story or even villains. You don't even get good villains anymore, most of the time the villains are just other heroes or team mates that have a slightly different viewpoint. I love the marvel expanded universe but its all just throw away now, it has no meaning when two heroes team up.
It especially doesn't help in some cases because part way though a story it gets interrupted by a cross over or another characters story that you have no idea about unless your reading there series. I know Marvel would say that it encourages you to read another characters series but it works both ways and a lot of the time just breaks momentum and leaves you confused.
It especially doesn't help in some cases because part way though a story it gets interrupted by a cross over or another characters story that you have no idea about unless your reading there series. I know Marvel would say that it encourages you to read another characters series but it works both ways and a lot of the time just breaks momentum and leaves you confused.
woah!
Yup. And Gary Frank.
LordOfLore
Banned
Sean Gordon Murphy WIP of a certain garage in a certain cave:
JordanDeGroot
Member
Ha yeah, there's actually 3 volumes solely written and drawn by John Allison set before they started making the boom issues as well (and Lissa Treiman started doing the art). I'd definitely recommend picking them up, there pretty cheap and cover some things mentioned in the boom series about how they all first met
http://shop.scarygoround.com/product/giant-days-series
stn
Member
Reading lately...
Superman Rebirth - its... okay.
Action Comics Rebirth - much better, enjoying it.
Detective Comics Rebirth - also quite good, liking Batwoman's arc. Great character.
Rai 4001 AD - nice art but boring story.
Bloodshot USA - decent enough.
Anything new that I might be missing out on?
Superman Rebirth - its... okay.
Action Comics Rebirth - much better, enjoying it.
Detective Comics Rebirth - also quite good, liking Batwoman's arc. Great character.
Rai 4001 AD - nice art but boring story.
Bloodshot USA - decent enough.
Anything new that I might be missing out on?
Standoff = 8 books, 16 issues
Spider-Women = 3 books, 8 issues
Apocalypse Wars = 3 books, 7 issues I think
The only TRUE event was CW2, everything else was a crossover a la Monster Men.
CaptainofIndustry
Member
Read the first issue of All-Star Batman last night and I liked it. I'm not a big fan of JRJr's art, but I thought this was better than most of his previous work.
Also read the first 3 issues of Deathstroke and I really don't know how I feel about this yet. Maybe if I knew more about the character, I'd enjoy it more. I'll finish the first arc.
Also read the first 3 issues of Deathstroke and I really don't know how I feel about this yet. Maybe if I knew more about the character, I'd enjoy it more. I'll finish the first arc.
hmm should I read the rest of invincible?
also went to my local comic shop and bought superman rebirth vol. 1 and mockingbird.
omega men is dope
is there any question being a green lantern is better than being superman?
you visit different galaxies and shit superman you just stay on shitty earth.
plus gls get fake bombs planted inside their necks
BKatastrophe
Member
That list is trash. Awful.
But on the topic of events:
Standoff was a SamCap storyline with Avengers books that tied-in or were affected by it: ANAD Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, New Avengers, and then Howling Commandoes and Illuminati. Apocalypse Wars was nothing, just a thematic story arc across the three X-Men team books. Death of X and Clone Conspiracy were their own separate storylines. IvX is only dealing with the X-Men and Inhumans books. Civil War 2 was the only genuinely large scale event.
None of this is really as bad as you're saying: Marvel has plenty of good villains running around, as Civil War 2 isn't the status quo. As for crossovers and tie-ins: the tie-ins are never really a big deal. For example, the last two X-books I read were both Inhumans vs X-Men tie-ins, and both of them made perfect sense, because of two things: recap pages and a brief mention of what was going on around the book (narrative or dialogue). Plus, those books advanced their own storylines without coming full stop (Uncanny X-Men did a really great job of it). Crossovers have specific checklists (something DC and Marvel have been doing lately that is just awesome) if you want to follow the entire thing, but only a couple require it here and there. Spider-Women, for example, needed you to follow every issue. Standoff, however, was perfectly sensible if you only read whatever book you happened to be reading. While I agree it kills momentum in some cases, other books (Like Ewing's New Avengers) carried on without skipping a beat. It's about as much of a coin flip as reading any issue.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Oh you're right. If google can't discern, I'm not sure how the rest of us can. Here's some Land garbage for your viewing
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Fake Edit: Oh, that's funny. Even this image has the Iron Man face.
