Didio hates trades so DC doesn't bother putting them out at a reasonable rate. I forget the exact quote but it was to the effect of pushing monthly issues and not wanting people to wait for the trades/not liking the trade format.
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Didio hates trades so DC doesn't bother putting them out at a reasonable rate. I forget the exact quote but it was to the effect of pushing monthly issues and not wanting people to wait for the trades/not liking the trade format.
He does absolutely nothing for me, especially coming off of the arc with Frazier Irving.
KoruptData
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The haul with a purchase by my wife.
Oh shit fucking megaton.
IGN had an article about Kirkman trying to avoid George Lucasing The Walking Dead the other day
That happened a long time ago lol
slightconfuse
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Yeah I can see Ult X-man and Ultimates ending. Ultimates is the best it's been since Hickman. Today's issue was awesome. If their gonna end it, end it on a high note I guess.
Father_Brain
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Fun fact: based on May sales, those two are currently Marvel's lowest-selling ongoing books (outside the MAX and all-ages lines) that have yet to be officially cancelled.
They've unsuccessfully attempted two major relaunches of the Ultimate line in the span of four years. Miles Morales should and almost certainly will live on somehow, but otherwise, Marvel should just let it die; if they try for a third time, they're frankly nuts.
Damn guess this is going to be it :| Miles will probably pull a Spider-Girl for awhile. Hope they don't bring him in to 616.
Doing a relaunch when the Nu52 started was really stupid :\
Tragicomedy
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I will read the hell out of that Fantomex book. After reading Uncanny X-Force, he surpassed Nightcrawler as my favorite X-Men character.
Then again, Remender even made Deadpool tolerable, so it all comes down to how he is handled.
Then again, Remender even made Deadpool tolerable, so it all comes down to how he is handled.
SpiderJerusalem
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Damn at that Justice League
I dorked out
I dorked out
when I saw the page with the strings connecting stuff on the board
KoruptData
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JL#22 Impressions: I enjoyed it. My knowlwdge of the Phantom Stranger is low so I dont get his involvment but the rest was pretty cool. I once again dont get all the negative spoiler reactions.
GrandHarrier
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While there is much more to it, Phantom Stranger (in the New 52) is essentially a Judas analogue; The betrayer. He has to serve penance to lift the curse he has been inflicted with.
SpiderJerusalem
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GrandHarrier
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Did he have a face? If no face, Question. If a face, Phantom Stranger.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
oh nevermind lol
I thought you read it and then I got mixed up
I thought you read it and then I got mixed up
Both are in it, Question more so than the Stranger.
SpiderJerusalem
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aw dammit
I'm an idiot. Well anyway, put me in the liking it so far group
I'm an idiot. Well anyway, put me in the liking it so far group
To be fair Stranger was literally only in it for one panel. I'd take a screen grab and post it if I knew how to upload it from my phone.
La Maquinon
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Jeff Lemire's Twitter page keeps me hype for Trillium. I love looking at the artwork in progress. The degree to which it resembes Sweet Tooth sets my heart aflutter, thats right. Aflutter.
https://twitter.com/JeffLemire
https://twitter.com/JeffLemire
I am so hyped for that book, it's not even funny.
Palette Swap
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Only bought UXM, Secret Avengers and TWD. I'm still not buying Hawkeye because I have that oversized hardcover preordered.
After liking the premise, I felt UXM was getting dull (Bendis has never done mystical stuff too well) but this issue was pretty good. I really like how Cyclops is characterized and his relationship with Magneto. Bendis still feels better on this than he did in these last couple of Avengers years.
I got into Secret Avengers last week. I tend to love the espionage stuff such as Secret War and Secret Warrior and this is right up my alley. I dig what they've been developing with AIM island being a sovereign country and I really loved some of Guice's panels. Tangentially, after retreading the previous volumes of Avengers and New Avengers, the high point of both really was Osborn's power grab and it kind of played into the same mythos.
As for TWD...
After liking the premise, I felt UXM was getting dull (Bendis has never done mystical stuff too well) but this issue was pretty good. I really like how Cyclops is characterized and his relationship with Magneto. Bendis still feels better on this than he did in these last couple of Avengers years.
I got into Secret Avengers last week. I tend to love the espionage stuff such as Secret War and Secret Warrior and this is right up my alley. I dig what they've been developing with AIM island being a sovereign country and I really loved some of Guice's panels. Tangentially, after retreading the previous volumes of Avengers and New Avengers, the high point of both really was Osborn's power grab and it kind of played into the same mythos.
As for TWD...
Yeah, that.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I've scrutinized the last couple pages of Avengers Arena intensely a few times. Still not entirely sure what to make of it.
Also, popcorn.
EDIT: OK, now I'm not at all confused. They just drew one of the characters weird.
EDIT: Read some comments from Hopeless from today. Yeah, that last page is exactly what it looks like.
pretty sure Chris is dead, though... preserved just like the very dead Red Raven on the right, but the bottom-left of the last page is really throwing me
EDIT: OK, now I'm not at all confused. They just drew one of the characters weird.
EDIT: Read some comments from Hopeless from today. Yeah, that last page is exactly what it looks like.
totally called it on Chris a few months back
TheKaeptain
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Batman was pretty good today. Spiderman was good.
fredrancour
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Got unwritten v7 and locke and key1. Productivity what? At least comics are over faster than games or novels...
TetraxShards
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Avengers Arena:
Holy fucking crap, what a curbstomp of a battle. My girl Nico decimating dem lifebars.
And that last page, I got chills. What's Arcade up to now? This book is amazing, I don't want it to end. #chasehawk
And that last page, I got chills. What's Arcade up to now? This book is amazing, I don't want it to end. #chasehawk
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It's just a morgue. The two fleshy bodies that have been dead the longest, Red Raven and Darkhawk, are soaking in preservatives. The bodies under the sheets are Juston and Kid Briton, less the head, which is soaking in preservatives near it.
La Maquinon
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I really liked Locke and Key vol.1 but it was one of those weird instances of really liking something but not being particularly inclined to read further.
Rafa=FedKilla
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So it looks like for the new DC four dollar books have better cover material on them, like Before Watchmen. Batman/Superman and the first two issues of Superman Unchained have it.
Didn't he always use to say that he'll keep the series going until it's completely run into the ground?
they seem random with it, the first issue of batman zero year had it, yet JLoA and JL the same month did not.
crimsonspider89
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Batman was good this month. That one page with
was just really awesome. I feel like Snyder and Capullo are pulling out the stops for this story, it's probably going to be the best story of their partnership at this rate.
Superman Unchained remains larger than life and is just going to the craziest places imaginable. Yet somehow it stays human. I liked
and the back-up. Shit gets realer than real next month.
Hawkguy is Hawkguy. Still awesome, and the best book this week that isn't Batman. Guess what?
.
Superior Spider-Man continues it's journey off the rails. Otto has lost his damn mind and this is all going to come falling down around him soon enough. I still can't believe
. Dude may be nuts, but that was ballsy. This is going to be a spectacular train wreck, I can't wait to see it.
the stone serpent that had the conversation with Bruce and Riddler in it
Superman Unchained remains larger than life and is just going to the craziest places imaginable. Yet somehow it stays human. I liked
Batman's cameo
Hawkguy is Hawkguy. Still awesome, and the best book this week that isn't Batman. Guess what?
Chickenbutt
Superior Spider-Man continues it's journey off the rails. Otto has lost his damn mind and this is all going to come falling down around him soon enough. I still can't believe
he blackmailed JJJ and made the Raft his new supervillain hideout
Spike Spiegel
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It seems like the sort of f*cked up thing this series would do to
have Arcade "reanimate" the dead kids and set them upon their former friends.
And Young Avengers has the best layouts of all time. OF ALL TIME.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Some guy: I waited from issue
#3 to #12 to find my favorite hero (Chris Powell) dead behind glass? That's it? #missingsomething
DH: Is that what's going on there?
The guy: sure looks like it
I'm at a loss for what may possibly happen next.DH: I know it's frustrating but that's what we were going for with that page
slightconfuse
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Fracavellia on guradians during infinity
dude is everywhere
dude is everywhere
crimsonspider89
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Some guy: I waited from issue#3 to #12 to find my favorite hero (Chris Powell) dead behind glass? That's it? #missingsomething
DH: Is that what's going on there?
The guy: sure looks like it
DH: I know it's frustrating but that's what we were going for with that page
Bro. He isn't confirming a morgue. He is saying the panel in question is supposed to make you ask what is happening next.
Anyway, doesn't matter. Book is going to be retconned since its sales are in the shitter now officially. Legacy beat #12 last month .
If only : | : / : (
Freezasaurus
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I would have bought Hawkeye Vol.2, but I'm waiting for the oversized hardcover in the Fall. Both volumes in one book? Yes plz.
crimsonspider89
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No he is trying to make people go what is going on here?
AKA he is trying to get sales back up and he is setting up so it can easily be retconned.
Marvel thought this book was going to be a blockbuster hit and is at the point of failing.
I mean, Comicvine doesn't even review it anymore.
AKA he is trying to get sales back up and he is setting up so it can easily be retconned.
Marvel thought this book was going to be a blockbuster hit and is at the point of failing.
I mean, Comicvine doesn't even review it anymore.
La Maquinon
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Heads up, my LCS had the Six-Gun Gorilla #1 second printing in today guys!
Freezasaurus
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What are we talking about? Guardians?
Cosmic books never do well in the grand scale of comic sales. Marvel should know this by now. Sure, they always have an audience, but the vast majority don't really seem to give a fuck about cosmic stuff.
??
#12 came out today, and #10 and 11 were both ahead of X-Men Legacy in June (though not by much).
Avengers Arena is a concept that should have a set ending after a finite run. I would be fine with the book being finished after 18 issues or so, even if I am enjoying the title so far.
Speaking of Sales, DC had a pretty strong month in June. They were still behind Marvel, but not by much. I wonder how things will look August with both Infinity and Trinity War running.
Tizoc
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I was wondering when Mike would continue with Hellboy X3
BTW anyone else read about what Supes did in Trinity War?
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