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COMICS! |OT| July 2014. Lots of stores on the way to San Diego sell deodorant.
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Tyrant Rave
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sick and tired of all of these shazam books, smh dc
GrandHarrier
Member
And yet look at all the shits people in this thread are giving any of the non Batman/Gotham books.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
It's great. Al Ewing is Marvel's Under The Radar Architect.
Hey I dunno about you, but I'm stoked for Neal Adams' Attack of the Supermen insanity.
Shin Johnpv
Member
To be fair, and as great of a creator as he once was, Neal Adams kind of deserves no shits given because of Batman Odyssey.
Jeff Lemire will launch a new book over at Dark Horse next March.
The promo pic is by Sorrentino.
Sounds interesting, and I'm game for absolutely every creator-owned thing Lemire does.
Edit: Interview with Lemire by CBR. It's an idea he's been working on for several years, but went on the backburner while he had his DC contract.
The promo pic is by Sorrentino.
Sounds interesting, and I'm game for absolutely every creator-owned thing Lemire does.
Edit: Interview with Lemire by CBR. It's an idea he's been working on for several years, but went on the backburner while he had his DC contract.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Are you guys saying people aren't excited about Lobo and Deathstroke and Green Arrow from the tv show's second string writers and Futures End month?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
If DCBS has them at 50% off for the first issue, i might order two of each and frame one!
Fingers crossed.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Lol
Good one
Series sounds really cool, I like the idea behind it. So far away though
I'm saying that pretty much everything they've announced recently sounds marginal at best and I'm sure there will be at least one more Bat book coming.
Duane Cunningham
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Okay, I'm reading anything between Civil War and Secret Invasion that catches my eye. I've already finished WWH, which sucked, and Annihilation Conquest which was fantastic. I also liked the two Bendis Avengers books: New and Mighty, weaving in and out of each other.
But what I'm reading now is the 2007 Strazynski/Copiel Thor book. I just plowed through the first 10 issues where Thor wakes up and rebuilds Asgard in rural Oklahoma. I'm really enjoying this. I figure I'll keep reading it until the rest of the Marvel universe butts in (probably Secret Invasion, I'm guessing). For now, I'm really digging it.
Before I get to SI, though, I do still need to go back and check in on the X-Men. The mutants were barely in Civil War, and I really haven't gone back to them since the end of House of M. I read the Decimation titles, but that's it. I'm aware that an event called Messiah CompleX is about to happen, so I'll read it and all the associated bits before continuing on to Secret Invasion.
I've basically been going down this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_history_of_Marvel_Comics_crossover_events and then trying to carefully google things like "what to I read between House of M and Civil War" (or Civil War/Secret Invasion) etc.
So far so good. I'm really impressed with the jump in quality Marvel seems to achieve around this time.
Oh, and I just finished Brubaker's Cap up to the end of the first major post-Civil War arc, and that's great stuff, too.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I need to check back in on Spider Man, too. It seems like the events of Civil War should really shake up his book.
Also, I tried reading Avengers: The Initiative (Gyrich and War Machine training a bunch of cadets), but it was really hard to follow. But I sure liked the artwork by Stefano Caselli.
But what I'm reading now is the 2007 Strazynski/Copiel Thor book. I just plowed through the first 10 issues where Thor wakes up and rebuilds Asgard in rural Oklahoma. I'm really enjoying this. I figure I'll keep reading it until the rest of the Marvel universe butts in (probably Secret Invasion, I'm guessing). For now, I'm really digging it.
Before I get to SI, though, I do still need to go back and check in on the X-Men. The mutants were barely in Civil War, and I really haven't gone back to them since the end of House of M. I read the Decimation titles, but that's it. I'm aware that an event called Messiah CompleX is about to happen, so I'll read it and all the associated bits before continuing on to Secret Invasion.
I've basically been going down this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_history_of_Marvel_Comics_crossover_events and then trying to carefully google things like "what to I read between House of M and Civil War" (or Civil War/Secret Invasion) etc.
So far so good. I'm really impressed with the jump in quality Marvel seems to achieve around this time.
Oh, and I just finished Brubaker's Cap up to the end of the first major post-Civil War arc, and that's great stuff, too.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I need to check back in on Spider Man, too. It seems like the events of Civil War should really shake up his book.
Also, I tried reading Avengers: The Initiative (Gyrich and War Machine training a bunch of cadets), but it was really hard to follow. But I sure liked the artwork by Stefano Caselli.
Finished Red Lanterns vol 4 tp, Soule's start, definitely disappointed that it read much like the Green Lantern Universe line that i was tired of and dropped. I expected more based on reviews and GAF love, I feel a bit letdown. I thought the book would be a little wilder and funnier with Red Lantern shenanigans. Random 5/10, only part i liked were
Guy's thought process as he was fighting Atrocitus and towards the end when they were hit with the calming beam
TetraxShards
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Well, there's a two-issue filler arc after Zero Year, then we're getting what Snyder called his big 75th Anniversary story. Surely he will be in that.
Ooh, sounds very interesting and I do like that cover.
I've never read the Civil War event. Anyone know where do I start? The Civil War TPB?
Affeinvasion
Member
Just don't. It's not worth it. It's character assassination 101. It also has had no lasting impact at all. As bad as Siege was it at least marked the end of that whole downward spiral that started with Civil War. I'm really hard-pressed to think of any development during that time that stuck. Initiative is gone, Sentry is gone, SHIELD is back (with Maria Hill at the helm), Iron Man and Cap are buds again. Well I guess Goliath is still dead but dude went out like a chump.
RealDeadOne
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That Lemire book sounds like part Morrison's Animal Man, that'd be the first Dark Horse book I buy since Star Wars Episode II
But without Civil War, there were no Dark Reihn and no Dark Avengers, ao it was not that bad afterall
I went with the official marvel order here: http://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/guide-part-7-civil-war/
Civil War Front Line is the best tie-in, like that page says.
Ahh, I'll have to give it some more thought now. I've been trying to beef up my Marvel trade collection and was looking at what events have taken place in the past few years to see if they were worth reading. I really liked Infinity and Battle of the Atom was just okay.
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Elektra #2
Oh man, things are starting to heat up with so many twists and turns. Elektra is right on the trail of the assassins' assassin, Cape Crow, and Bloody Lips is not far behind. Again, the art is stellar but Del Mundo is still using the fancy two-page spreads more than I liked to see (it wears thin after a while). I don't have #3 but will have to stop by my LCS later this week to pick it up.
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Shutter #3
The momentum is still going strong by introducing us to new characters as well as that last page cliffhanger. The first few pages confused me a bit since the art was slightly different (not really sure what was going on there). Kate's cat is sooooo lovable. Check out the train scene below. I even closed my eyes and imagined that I was there; such a relaxing moment for Kate given all the chaos that has happened before those panels.
Bonus pic:
Affeinvasion
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But without Civil War, there were no Dark Reihn and no Dark Avengers, ao it was not that bad afterall
Dark Reign is one of the dumbest premises that's ever happened at Marvel and that includes both Contest of Champions. Guy who is all but essentially a known supervillain gets the kill shot on the leader of a bad guy army that everyone else is also fighting and they make him president. Wat?
Nice choice, that book is completely awesome.
TetraxShards
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But without Civil War, there were no Dark Reihn and no Dark Avengers, ao it was not that bad afterall
This is 100% correct. Dark Reign gave us Secret Warriors, which I'm currently reading and is amazing.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Yea it's a dumb sounding idea, but it turned out a lot of really great stories.
Serpentine
Banned
Well I do like Reilly Brown, but it doesn't matter how you redesign him, it's Lobo in 2014
YES PLEASE
Dark Avengers was so slow. And I figured out that Bendis has a hard on for Sentry. Either that or Bendis had to add in a power set at the last second to defeat Molecule Man. It was still bad.
I actually enjoyed Didio's run on the book so looking forward to Kirby's.
I'm down, DC might care putting some talent for the book that way.
Dark Avengers sure, but there were some really good stories in the other books that had Dark Reign crossovers. Spider-man was great, Way's Deadpool had it's two best arcs during that time and Fantastic Four used it to kick off Hickman's run.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Dark Avengers had that one scene of Norma seducing The Sentry to join...and then it was just bad version of Ellis/Deodato Jr Thunderbolts
Its not better than Lex Luthor becoming the POTUS or joining the Justice League.
I am ok with this.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
TetraxShards
Member
Fucking yes.
Bout time.
Nice, I dig it. Original Jeff Lemire books (even without his art) make me very, very happy. There should be a good amount of that going forward.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
I'm pretty much feeling this way right now, but the fans have been brutally manhandled. They just continue to top themselves in ridiculous decisions. They barely have a handful of readable series at the moment, let alone actually great ones.
Not that Marvel is doing a hell of a lot better, but at least I haven't seen them do quite as many stupid things since they rebooted their series'.
Freezasaurus
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Man, I don't even care anymore. Too little, too late Fraction.
slightconfuse
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