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COMICS! |OT| July 2013. Celebrate liberty with the ultimate patriotic superhero.
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Me too, but first we have to see 616 Captain America beat the crap out of President Bigot Cap, and then toss his ass into the "characters who are never coming back" pit.
Now that I think about it, 50's Captain America and Ultimate Cap would get along just fine.
I would read Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run
I think his full run is up there, about 25 issues.Also read Nextwave Agents of Hate because it's amazing and all 12 issues are on MU.
Affeinvasion
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I would say that Schism is the most recent arc that explains why things are the way they are currently. I also found it very enjoyable.
Cool. I think I read the Whedon one. Is the Whedon one where
Kitty gets caught in the rocket?
Affeinvasion
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I believe so.
krypt0nian
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lol I thought that was Battle Beast at first
Rafa=FedKilla
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Damn each month there are least five new books I wanna get. In October its a ton.
hardly anything ever ends these days, i know we get grumpy with cancellations of the one or two titles we like, but of the 40 books i buy, by the time i drop a book or two from my pull list i've already added 3.
krypt0nian
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I still say comics should be published like Brit series. Do a storyline, take a small break, do another. Rinse, repeat.
Freezasaurus
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The only thing I don't like about those is that series like that tend to be renumbered for each mini-series. I know Image does it for books like Luther Strode, and Dark Horse does it for a few of their titles. It makes the whole thing feel a bit disjointed.
krypt0nian
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They could do what Skullkickers does and have a Master issue number somewhere inside.
To me it's not disjointed as I know the reading order, and storyline start and end. Far far preferable.
Tizoc
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Looks wicked, seems they're basing it off her 'spy' direction from the 70s/80s.
EDIT: ...and this is the best scene in a comic for this month for me
DAT SHORYUKEN!
Freezasaurus
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Was Blackest Night even good?
I actually did read it and know the answer, the question was rhetorical.
BuddyJoeHooker
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Relative to most other events, I would rate Blackest Night way above most.
Also the real highlight of that event was the Green Lantern issue tie-ins.
I enjoyed Blackest Night, especially Black Hand, but found Necron to be a little goofy and the plot kind of got out of hand into a brightest day launching point instead of a good story. Blackest Night was the conclusion to Johns' Green Lantern run in spirit, and it was a decent one. I also liked the Rage of the Red Lanterns build up to the event.
Of All Trades
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I felt BN had a pretty great buildup to a fairly uninteresting event (way below Sinestro) and the $125 MSRP for 575 pages is a poor deal, even at 50%, when for less $$$ you can get a similar number of pages with the far FAR superior Absolute Top Ten or Solo Deluxe Edition.
I did end up getting Solo Deluxe Edition, absolute top ten was tempting as a blind buy but i own the first two trade paperbacks which make up the bulk of the issues collected. I started vol 1 and it's fun so far, but i don't think i will regret skipping the Absolute. I own the hardcovers of the material collected in Absolute Blackest Night....yet i still want it.
Sidebar: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Black Hand!
Frustrated_Grunt
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Are the Marvel Essential Trades worth picking up if you want to read older stories? Does the lack of color get in the way of the enjoyment?
La Maquinon
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Have I missed discussion of the Howard Chaikyn graphic novel Century West? Newly translated to English, it's set for release early September. Must buy status.
was the story itself must buy or just as a collector's/fan thing? I have never really been interested in Chaykin's work.
Planet_JASE
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I found that after a few issues, I really didn't notice the lack of colour. When we're talking about issues from the 60s, the colouring was usually rudimentary (often incorrectly) and did not play as big a part in the total package as today's comics.
Try buying one and see how you feel at the end of it. You can't go wrong dollar to content wise with those collections.
La Maquinon
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To be quite honest, I'm not even that familiar with his work. What sold me was the preview pages.
Affeinvasion
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In my opinion the colors as rudimentary as they are are absolutely vital to the whole thing. The 60s color palette was as genre defining as the line art.
Imagine this without the color:
Then weep.
slightconfuse
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Blackest Night was a fun event. But you need the Green lantern tie-ins to get ht emost out of the story
KoruptData
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Well all be, JL #22 spoiler:
Is The Outsider suposed to be Alfred from another Earth?
Planet_JASE
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Gah, I don't think my point came across as well as I'd intended. Firstly, colour does matter and makes a difference but it's reliance in today's comics - for embellishing the line art, special effects and sometimes wholesale painting in missing detail - was not present during the golden and silver age.
I can't deny that the colours in the Asgard picture certainly lift and add to the overall image, but the pencils, by their own right, tell all the story and detail that you need to know.
Today's colourists add so much more to the overall look and are woven into the very fundamental fabric of each page, unlike the comics of our past. While losing the colours from books during the golden and silver age is far from an ideal situation, I feel that the compromise made by losing them with the value proposition of the Essentials trades is acceptable.
Anticitizen One
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Escape Goat
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Does Franklin Richards still have his reality warping powers? Is he still a mutant? I re-read Fraction's first issue after not read a FF comic in many years and realized Franklin could have saved the day easily. Whats the reason they're using to negate that silver bullet?
Frustrated_Grunt
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Thanks for the input. I'll give a Spider-Man essentials a shot and see how I like it.
Freezasaurus
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Has anyone read Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos? That hardcover came out this week and I kinda want to get it, but I'm not sure how good (or not) the story is.
I was going to just read the event. I might pick up a few of the villains month issues, but I was under the impression that they were basically one-shots. I haven't been following things all that closely though.
He had his powers as of the start of Fraction's run. I haven't read Fraction's Fantastic Four beyond issue #1 though.
KoruptData
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I have so much history to research.
slightconfuse
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Planet_JASE
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The first handful of Amazing Essentials are... well, amazing. The strength of art and story will keep you chugging through them despite being in black & white. Have you read much of the early days of Spider-Man?
KoruptData
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Im all caught up on my comics and trades. I officially read more than I watch TV these days. My dad of 10 years ago would have been so proud. Think I will go dabble in my wifes collection of Batgirl. Start at the beginning or start at a certain arc?
Frustrated_Grunt
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The earliest I've read of Amazing Spider-man was the Birth of Venom trade, so I've have little experience with Stan Lee/Ditko era stuff besides word of mouth of what happened. I'm trying to rectify that.
GrandHarrier
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A local store had a sale. Bought Arrow #1-8. Can't wait for the abs.
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I really don't have any excuse. They were just so cheap.
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I really don't have any excuse. They were just so cheap.
I think they're setting up for him to do something big in that current Lost in Space arc. But hes basically got the power of god. So besides him being a kid god that you don't really want to use, they also probably avoid overusing him because story.
Freezasaurus
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Adult Franklin showed up in the previous volume of FF and yeah... he could pretty much do anything by that point.
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